Pascale Fung is Senior Director of AI Research at Meta and a Chair Professor of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). She is also a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. A Fellow of AAAI, IEEE, ACL, and ISCA, she has served on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board and as Editor-in-Chief for leading speech and language processing journals. Her team has won multiple best paper awards at ACL and NeurIPS workshops.
Fung has been an expert on the Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum since 2016 and is part of the UN’s AI Advisory Body. She has advised the EU, UAE, Japan, and the U.S. Academies on AI governance and ethics. Fluent in seven languages, she is based at Meta-FAIR in Paris and was named one of Forbes Asia’s 2024 leaders.