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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager @ Apple Inc.

    February 2022 — Present

    Lead Siri Response voice automation team for scalable voice building and release on Apple products.

  2. Senior Machine Learning & Software Engineer @ Apple Inc.

    March 2017 — February 2022

    Built, integrated and released Siri premium and neural text-to-speech voices on Apple products since iOS 11.

  3. Computational Linguist & Application Developer @ VoiceBox Technologies

    June 2014 — February 2017

    Established CI/CD for natural language understanding improvements for S Voice on Samsung Galaxy S6 & S7.

  4. Research Assistant @ University of Washington

    June 2013 - October 2013

    Analyzed machine translation errors and managed crowdsourcing work for Translation of Public Health Information for a Diverse Public.

  5. Research Assistant @ Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

    November 2011 - July 2012

    Researched in first language acquisition for the Early Acquisition of Speech Prosody for phonology in Mandarin-speaking infants.

Education

  1. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    January 2021 — December 2024 (Expected)

    Master of Business Administration, Business Analytics, Strategic Innovation.

  2. University of Washington, Seattle

    September 2012 — August 2014

    Master of Science, Computational Linguistics.

  3. Beijing Language and Culture University

    September 2008 — June 2012

    Bechalor of Arts, Linguistics, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.

Languages

  • Mandarin Chinese (CMN, Lower Yangtze)
    100%
  • English (ENG)
    90%
  • Python
    90%
  • Swift
    70%
  • Japanese (JPN)
    60%
  • Korean (KOR)
    40%
  • Russian (RUS)
    30%

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