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Shangwu Yao
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Location: New York, New York, United StatesApprox. Years of Experience: 8
Shangwu Yao's Current Workplace
Waymo
Company Size
2500+
Amount Raised
$5.5B
Notable Investors
Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Temasek Holdings, Magna International, Alphabet
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Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Waymo
Sep 2020 - Present
4 yrs 1 mo
Software Performance Engineer
Apple
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
1 yr 8 mos
AR/VR related performance analysis and optimization for computer vision pipeline and deep learning model Led the performance optimization of neural network on ASIC accelerator
Contributor
scikit-learn (Machine Learning in Python)
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
3 mos
- Contributed a new metric to Scikit-learn: multi-label confusion matrix, and conducted thorough tests (codecov 99.18%) - Conducted benchmarking and line profiling on multi-label confusion matrix, reduced runtime by 81.8% - Maintained warning message suppression code, suppressed 2239 expected warnings in testing
Independent Study on Speech Recognition
Carnegie Mellon University
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
5 mos
Under guidance of Prof. Bhiksha Raj, used deep learning for speech recognition problem. - Developed an attention-based encoder-decoder model and a recurrent network trained with CTCLoss, used curriculum learning and beam search to improve results - Adopted MFCC and implemented Vocal Tract Length Perturbation as a method of data augmentation in speech recognition - Implemented weight-dropped LSTM which uses DropConnect on hidden-to-hidden weights and variational dropout on the input - Achieved 3x speedup by reducing data transfer between CPU and GPU and replacing iterations with high level indexing
Competition Participant
Kaggle
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
2 mos
Statoil/C-CORE Iceberg Classifier (Image Recognition) Challenge - Ranked 118th out of 3343 teams (top 4%), silver medal
Education
  • 2017 - 2018
    Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster's degree
  • 2019 - 2020
    Stanford UniversitySCPD, Computer Science
  • 2012 - 2016
    Wuhan UniversityBachelor's degree