CV

Employment

• Technical Program Manager, Amazon Artificial General Intelligence, Jan 2024 - Present
• Knowledge Engineer, Amazon Alexa AI, July 2022 - Jan 2024
• NLP/Linguistics Engineer, Principal Financial Group, June - August 2021

Education

• Ph.D in Linguistics, MIT, 2022
• M.Phil. in General Linguistics & Comparative Philology, University of Oxford, 2017
• B.A. in General Linguistics, Language & Communication, University of Hong Kong, 2015

Work & Research Experiences

• Summer 2019: Research Intern @ Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany
• 2019-2020: Graduate Researcher @ MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Lab, Cambridge MA
• 2017-Present: Graduate Researcher @ MIT Language Acquisition Lab, Cambridge MA
• 2015-2017: Research Assistant @ Language and Brain Lab, Oxford, UK
• Spring 2015: Marketing Intern @ Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong

Skills

• Expertise: Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Machine Learning, Language Data Annotation
• Programming: Python (NLTK, PyTorch, pandas, Tensorflow), R, Shiny, Markdown, SQL, JavaScript (including WebPPL), HTML, CSS, git, LaTeX
• Data skills: Data collection, data annotation, data processing, data visualization, statistical analysis (frequentist, Bayesian; GLM, GAM), computational modeling, experiment design, taxonomy design
• Project skills: project management, quantitative & qualitative research, oral & written presentation
• Languages: English (near native), Mandarin (native), Cantonese (fluent), Brazilian Portuguese (beginner)

Service and Leadership

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Member, Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America
• Equal Opportunity Ambassador, University of Hong Kong

Certificates (Coursera & MIT)

• Data Science & Machine Learning:
  • Inferential Statistics; Logistic Regression; Practical Machine Learning;
  • SQL for Data Science; Data Wrangling, Analysis, and AB Testing with SQL;
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing Specialization:
  • NLP with Classification and Vectors; NLP with Probabilistic Models; NLP with Sequence Models; NLP with Attention Models;
  • NLP in TensorFlow