Fung PascaleSenior Director of AI Research, META

Pascale Fung is a Senior Director of AI Research at Meta. She is also a Chair Professor of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), and a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She is a Fellow of the AAAI, IEEE, ACL and ISCA.  She served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She served as Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor for all the top academic journals in the field of speech and language processing. Her team has won several best and outstanding paper awards at ACL, ACL and NeurIPS workshops.   

She is an expert on the Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum since 2016. She is on the Expert Network of the UN Advisory Body  on AI. She is a  member of the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society. She has been a keynote or invited speaker in 250 conferences and panels to speak to both the AI technical community and the public. She has been invited as an expert on AI governance by the United Nations, EU, EC, European Parliament, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Singapore, the US Academics of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering, among others. She was invited to a private audience with Pope Francis in 2023 for an occasion to discuss AI ethics. She is listed as one of the Forbes 50 over 50 Asia 2024. A speaker of seven European and Asian languages, she is currently based in Meta-FAIR in Paris.