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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
IEEE Senior Member; received the Allen B. Dumont Prize for graduate research; Distinguished Author of Year 2020 Award from Publishing House of Electronics Industry; Bestselling course on Udemy and Udemy Business; 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention award by AMiner.org.
Research Experience
Former Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon. Currently leads the Hotword Modeling team and the Speaker, Voice & Language team at Google DeepMind.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer & Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Prof. Kim L. Boyer; B.Eng. in Automation from Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Qionghai Dai.
Background
A Senior Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager at Google DeepMind, New York City. Leads the Hotword Modeling team and the Speaker, Voice & Language team, delivering a diverse set of server-side and on-device speech models to Google's product ecosystem, including “Hey Google” keyword spotting, voice match, language recognition, spoofed speech detection, speech enhancement, speaker diarization, and multilingual speech recognition.
Miscellany
Teaches courses on Speaker Recognition and Speaker Diarization; authored the textbook 'Speaker Recognition: From Core Algorithms to Engineering Practice' which has won awards.