Li Deng is an internationally prominent researcher, engineer, educator, and technology leader in artificial intelligence, machine learning, signal processing, financial engineering, speech recognition, and natural language processing. He has invented a series of ground-breaking machine learning paradigms, architectures, methodologies, and algorithms for hidden Markov models and deep neural networks. He has been widely recognized for his 2009-2013 pioneering contributions to world-wide speech recognition industry using large-scale deep learning. His original and landmark research, over 30 years, combined with his outstanding leadership in advancing engineering knowledge, have culminated in the spectacular effects of deep learning and AI on society today.