Biography:Mei-Yuh Hwang
Mei-Yuh Hwang (Chinese: 黄美玉) is a speech recognition researcher who works for Mobvoi in Redmond, Washington, and holds a position as affiliate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington.[1]
Education and career
Hwang was a student at National Taiwan University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1986. She went to Carnegie Mellon University for graduate study,[2] completing her Ph.D. in 1993[1] with Kai-Fu Lee, Raj Reddy, and Xuedong Huang as faculty mentors.[1][2] Her dissertation was Subphonetic Acoustical Modeling for Speaker-Independent Continuous Speech Recognition.[3]
In 1994 she joined Microsoft with Xuedong Huang.[2] Her projects at Microsoft included the Whisper dictation application, the Microsoft Speech API, multi-language dictation in Office XP, Microsoft Speech Server, Bing Translator, and the Chinese version of the Cortana virtual assistant.[1][2] She also worked on leave from Microsoft as a researcher at the University of Washington from 2004 to 2008,[1] working there on a system for monitoring Mandarin and Arabic language news media and producing English-language digests of their content.[2]
In 2016 she was hired by Mobvoi to become their vice president of engineering.[2]
Recognition
Hwang was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to speech and language technology".[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Mei-Yuh Hwang", People (University of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering), https://www.ece.uw.edu/people/mei-yuh-hwang/, retrieved 2023-05-31
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Peng, Tony (18 October 2017), "Meet Voice Pioneer Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang", SyncedReview, https://medium.com/syncedreview/meet-voice-pioneer-dr-mei-yuh-hwang-74c1a8f8a204, retrieved 2023-05-31
- ↑ Mei-Yuh Hwang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 2019 Fellow Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2019-ieee-fellow-class.pdf, retrieved 2023-05-31
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