Yang Liu (speech recognition)

Yang Liu (Chinese: 刘扬)[1] is a Chinese and American computer scientist specializing in speech recognition, and a principal scientist for Amazon Alexa.

Education and career

Liu was a student of electrical engineering at Tsinghua University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1997 and a master's degree in 2000. She went to Purdue University for doctoral study in electrical and computer engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 2004.[2]

After postdoctoral research at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2005, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2011. She moved from academia to Silicon Valley in California in 2015, but retained her faculty position in Dallas on leave until 2018.[2][3]

Meanwhile, she was a visiting scientist at Google Research from 2015 to 2016, a researcher for Facebook from 2016 to 2017, and head of the AI lab for LAIX Inc. from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, she took her present position at Amazon Alexa, as a principal scientist for Alexa AI.[2]

Recognition

Liu was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to speech understanding and language learning technology".[4] In the same year, she was also named a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association, "for her contributions to speech recognition and understanding, prosody modelling, summarization, sentiment analysis, and social media research".[5]

References
  1. "Yang Liu", ACL Anthology, retrieved 2023-04-27
  2. Curriculum (PDF), University of Texas at Dallas, December 2020, retrieved 2023-04-27
  3. "Dr. Lang Liu", Faculty alumni, University of Texas at Dallas, retrieved 2023-04-27
  4. Newly elevated Fellow class 2021 (PDF), IEEE, retrieved 2023-04-27
  5. Amazon Alexa scientist Yang Liu named an ISCA Fellow, Amazon Science, 14 May 2021, retrieved 2023-04-27
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