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Yifan Zhang
Senior Software Engineer
Yifan Zhang
Senior Software Engineer
Educational Qualifications
Master of Science (with Distinction)
Lion Laboratories Prize for Best Project
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Divison
Arabic Language Technologies
Biography
Yifan Zhang has worked in industry for more than 10 years researching and developing speech recognition and language-related products. Prior to joining QCRI, he was building information discovery engines for innovative news services. He has been a key member as a full stack research scientist in developing speech recognition engines serving millions of customers in speech recognition teams in both SpinVox Nuance and Autonomy.
Master of Science (with Distinction)
Cardiff University, UK
2004
Lion Laboratories Prize for Best Project
Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
2001
- Artificial Intelligence
- Speech Recognition
- Knowledge Graph
Senior Software Engineer
Qatar Computing Search Institute, Qatar
2013 ~
Sr. Research Engineer
Wavii (Google), US
2012 ~ 2013
Senior Research Engineer
SpinVox (Nuance), UK
2008 ~ 2012
R&D Engineer
Autonomy, UK
2005 ~ 2008
Lead Developer
Tianchuang Software, China
2001 ~ 2002
The MGB-2 Challenge: Arabic Multi-Dialect Broadcast Media Recognition. In Proceedings of the Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2016) IEEE, California, USA.
QATS – The QCRI Advanced Transcription and Translation System. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2015. Dresden, Germany. September 2015.
A Complete Kaldi Recipe For Building Arabic Speech Recognition Systems. In Proceedings of the Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) IEEE, Nevada, USA, December 2014.
In Proceedings of the Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) IEEE, Nevada, USA, December 2014.
Recent Advances in ASR Applied to an Arabic Transcription System for Al-Jazeera. In Proceedings of the Conference INTERSPEECH, Singapore, September 2014.
The MGB-2 Challenge: Arabic Multi-Dialect Broadcast Media Recognition. In Proceedings of the Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2016) IEEE, California, USA.