Mei-Yuh Hwang (黃美玉)

http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/~mhwang/

Affiliate Professor

The Signal, Speech and Language Interpretation Lab
Electrical Engineering Department
University of Washington
mhwang AT ee dot washington dot edu

Mei-Yuh is now a principal software engineer at Microsoft (3/2008--).

Mei-Yuh joined the SSLI Lab in March 2004, mainly responsible for developing Mandarin speech recognition systems using the SRI Decipher engine. Her main interests lie in pattern recognition (especially speech and handwriting recognition), statistic modeling, heuristic search, discrete math and algorithms.

Before coming to UW, she enjoyed 10 years at Microsoft Corporation , where she contributed to both research and product development which included the Whisper dictation system, Microsoft Speech API, Office XP English/Mandarin/Japanese dictation and Speech Server. She is familiar with SPHINX, CMU-LM Toolkit, SRILM Toolkit, HTK, and Microsoft and SRI Decipher speech engines. She has published many conference and journal papers and serves as a reviewer for IEEE Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Computer Speech and Language, and Speech Communication.


Research Projects at SSLI