李琳山教授，1979-2023年任教於台大電機系及資訊系，在當時相當艱困的國內學術條件下，投入並完成之前從無人研究的全新挑戰—教機器聽說華語，因為「美國人不會替我們研究」。

今日機器聽說華語相關產品已為全球華人普遍使用，但除了今日才有的巨量數據，雲端資訊及超強軟硬體等技術環境外，這些華語相關技術的核心基礎，均出自其手，及他當年在台大所帶領的學生團隊。

2015年獲總統科學獎，2016年任中研院院士，2018年由 Nature 期刊選為涵蓋所有科學領域的十位「東亞科學之星」 (Science Stars of East Asia) 之一。

Lin-shan Lee has been teaching in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at National Taiwan University 1979-2023.

He invented, published and demonstrated the earliest but very complete set of fundamental technologies and systems for analyzing Chinese sentences (1986-91) and synthesizing (1984-89) and recognizing (1987-97) Chinese speech with unlimited text, considering the structural features of Chinese language (monosyllable per character, limited number of distinct monosyllables, tones, sentence structures, etc.) and the extremely limited resources.

He then focused his work on retrieval of speech information from the Internet, proposing a whole set of approaches offering better retrieval accuracy and efficiency. This part of work applies equally to all different languages, and was described as the stepping stones towards "a spoken version of Google" when Nature selected him in 2018 as one of the 10 "Science Stars of East Asia" in a special issue on scientific research in East Asia.

He served as a member of the Board (2001-2009) of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) (2007-2008), and the general chair of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2009 held in Taipei. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1993 and ISCA Fellow in 2010. He also received the Meritorious Service Award from IEEE SPS in 2011. He received Presidential Science Prize of Taiwan in 2015 and was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica in 2016, both of which are the highest honor for scientists in Taiwan.