Senior Research SDE, Azure AI
Microsoft
Jun 2021 - Present
• 2 years 4 monthsAlibaba Group
Nov 2016 - Jun 2021
Tech Lead, Intelligent Speech Interaction in DAMO Academy
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
• 3 years 6 months1.Lead the team to continually develop large-scale data, model training and testing pipeline and platform for ASR-related models, expediting the model production for booming applications and businesses.
2.Lead and build ASR customization Platform from scratch with industry-leading active users, empowering partners without domain knowledge to create customized acoustic and language models on multi-languages that improve recognition accuracy dramatically, which deliveries key differentiation from the competitors.
Senior Engineer, Intelligent Speech Interaction in the Institute of Data Science and Technologies
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
• 1 year 2 monthsBuild large-scale ASR acoustic model training pipeline from scratch on CPU/GPU cluster, fulfilling the modeling demands for all ASR products across various industries such as telecommunications, government, financial service, automotive, education, transportation, etc.
Senior Research Engineer
Nuance Communications
Jun 2013 - Oct 2016
• 3 years 5 monthsDevelop the core multi-platform, multi-purpose speech recognition engine used for Nuance’s cutting-edge ASR products, focusing on new algorithm/model implementation, performance optimization, etc.
Research Assistant at the Distributed Control and Estimation lab
University of Florida
Aug 2008 - Apr 2013
• 4 years 9 months1.Invent distributed estimation algorithms for clock synchronization problem in mobile wireless sensor networks, which is a break-through that theoretically guarantees the convergence of the estimation with random communication failures.
2.Propose occupancy estimator using statistical models and limited sensor measurements to predict number of people in large buildings motivated by better building HAVC control.
Research intern
Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
• 3 monthsSolve home occupancy prediction problem using neural networks and support vector machine for heating scheduling in smart home.
Research collaboration
United Technologies Research Center
Aug 2010 - Aug 2010
• 1 monthCollaborated on the design of a cyber-physical system for occupancy estimation in high-performance buildings and demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed approach using MATLAB/ Simulink.
Visiting research assistant at Autonomous Robot Laboratory
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Feb 2007 - May 2007
• 4 months• Developed an easy-to-use voice-based control system for an intelligent wheelchair to assist the disable using .NET and C++, which was reported by the China Central TV in 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-hYPRzmJo&feature=channel&list=UL
Software development Intern
ABB China Limited
Mar 2007 - Apr 2007
• 2 months• Contributed to the maintainability of one ABB product and developed an application to upgrade user programs using C# and XML.
Research assistant at Automation Lab
Zhejiang University
Sep 2005 - Jun 2006
• 10 months• Won the proposal and led a team to accomplish a control system for light-sensing curtains using embedded system.
• Collaborated on an automatic object-sorting system using Omron PLC.