Qi “Peter” Li is the founder and CEO of Li Creative Technologies. Prior to establishing LCT in 2002, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. As a principal investigator, he has been awarded 50 government and commercial research contracts for work in AI, acoustics, audio, speech and speaker recognition, and natural-language processing. He is an IEEE fellow and holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island.