LI Aijun

LI Aijun is a research fellow, the deputy director of the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and the head of the CASS Key Laboratory of Linguistics. She received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Department of Computer Science at Tianjin University, as well as her Ph.D from the School of Human Information Science at JAIST, and. She currently serves as the vice president of the Chinese Linguistic Society, a member of the Oriental COCOSDA steering committee, a member of the Academic Committee of the Ministry of Public Security’s Key Laboratory of Intelligent Speech Technology, a member of the third research planning leadership group of the National Language and Writing Committee, and a member of the Cross-Strait Language and Writing Exchange and Cooperation Coordination Group. She is also the chief editor of the Chinese Journal of Phonetics and on the editorial boards for Studies of Chinese Language, Minority Languages of China and China Scientific Data.

Her recent research has focused on intonation typology, first and second language acquisition, and the production and perception of speech in interaction that is closely related to AI. She has directed a number of major and key projects funded by the Social Science Foundation, and has been involved in multiple projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, the National 973 and 863 projects. She has also contributed to the development of national speech guidelines. Her representative works include Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech: A Cross-Cultural and Multimodal Study between Chinese and Japanese, Chinese Spoken Discourse Corpus: Construction and Annotation” and An Interdisciplinary Study of English Learners’ phonetic Acquisition in Chinese Dialect Areas. She receives special allowances from the State Council. In 2010 she was selected as a national candidate for the New Century Talents Project. In 2019 she was identified as a cultural celebrity and one of the “Four Batches” of talents. She was recognized as one of the “Ten Thousand Talents Programme” prominent figures in philosophy and social sciences nationwide in 2020.

Title/position: Professor

Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Science

Institute of linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

5 Jian Guo Men Nei Da Jie, Beijing CHINA 100732

Phone: +86-10-6523 7408

Fax: +86-10-6512 8159

E-mail: liaj@cass.org.cn