Mingkuan Liu
Summary
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SeniorMingkuan Liu is a seasoned AI/ML executive and principal architect specializing in scalable, product-focused AI across speech, NLP, and search. With 20 years of R&D experience, he has led teams to build SOTA models and deployed DL-based solutions from Garmin's embedded voice tech to Coupang's large-scale NLP/LLM initiatives. He built Appen's DS&ML organization from the ground up, delivering AI automation across text, audio, image, video, and LiDAR data. He excels at translating complex AI concepts for non-technical stakeholders, aligning research with business goals and customer outcomes. His career spans Microsoft Cortana, eBay, and Garmin, underpinned by a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering with a specialization in pattern recognition. Based in Los Gatos, California, he combines deep technical depth with strategic vision to push AI forward in large-scale, real-world systems.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
classification10
retrieval10
thesaurus10
recall10
tf-idf10
recipes9
text-classification9
word-embeddings9
information-retrieval9
question-answering9
semantic9
nlp9
ranking8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
eBay/Sequence-Semantic-Embedding
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Tools and recipes to train deep learning models and build services for NLP tasks such as text classification, semantic search ranking and recall fetching, cross-lingual information retrieval, and question answering etc.
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 5 months
bertnlp-tasksword-embeddingsfetchingdeep-learning-models
mingkuan/voice-assistant-chatgpt
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
Voice Assistant based on Whisper ASR and ChatGPT API
Contributions:1 push, 1 comment, 1 issue in 10 months
ai-web-appasrchatbot-applicationchatgptchatgpt-bot
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