Professor Helen Meng is the Co-Principal Investigator and Head of the Curriculum Development Team of CUHK Jockey Club AI for the Future Project. She is Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received the S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a recognised scholar in the field of multilingual speech and language processing, multimodal human-computer interaction and Big Data analytics. She leads the interdisciplinary research team that received the first RGC Theme-based Research Scheme Project in Artificial Intelligence in 2019. She is also an invited member of the AI4SDGs AI for Children Working Group. Her recent awards include the 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award, 2018 CogInfoComm Best Paper Award, 2017 Outstanding Women Professional Award (one of the twenty since 1999), 2016 Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award (one of 32 academics worldwide), 2016 IBM Faculty Award, 2016 IEEE ICME Best Paper Award, 2015 ISCA Distinguished Lecturer, 2015 HKCS inaugural Outstanding ICT Women Professional Award and 2012 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) inaugural Distinguished Lecturer. She is a Fellow of IEEE, ISCA, HKIE and HKCS.