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
[edit]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
[edit]Hwang was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to speech and language technology".[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Mei-Yuh Hwang", People, University of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering, retrieved 2023-05-31
- ^ a b c d e f Peng, Tony (18 October 2017), "Meet Voice Pioneer Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang", SyncedReview, retrieved 2023-05-31 – via Medium
- ^ Mei-Yuh Hwang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 2019 Fellow Newly Elevated Fellows (PDF), IEEE, archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-20, retrieved 2023-05-31
