Summary
Simon Lui is a Chief Expert in generative AI and multimodal audio-visual systems, currently steering Huawei’s global audio strategy and research across smartphones, wearables, tablets, and automotive platforms. With a Ph.D. from HKUST and roles at MIT, SUTD, Tencent Music and Huawei, he translates deep academic research into billion-user commercial products and industry standards. He led marquee projects such as HarmonyOS video summarization, a music AIGC flagship showcased at HDC 2025, and world-leading audio fingerprinting and music restoration systems. A recipient of the China Patent Excellence Award and MIREX championships, he combines technical authorship of national standards with hands-on product launches that reached #1 on the iOS App Store. Unusually for a senior technologist, he is also a seasoned composer and concertmaster, blending musical craft with signal-processing expertise to innovate in music-centric AI. He is skilled at bridging elite academia and large-scale industrial engineering to turn research prototypes into defensible commercial assets.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese, Japanese