Chia-ying Lee
Staff AI Research Scientist at Duolingo
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChia-ying Lee is a Staff AI Research Scientist with a decade of experience applying probabilistic modeling, statistical inference, and deep learning to speech recognition and natural language problems. She combines rigorous academic training from MIT (PhD) with hands-on industry impact—from building RNN/DBN hybrids during a Microsoft internship to leading AI research at Duolingo and advising startups. As a former co-founder and CTO, she pairs product-minded engineering with research-driven model design, often focusing on low-resource languages and unsupervised methods. Notably, her work spans both algorithm design (novel inference for alignment and phonetic discovery) and practical deployment in health and edtech domains, reflecting a rare blend of theoretical depth and applied problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electronic Engineering, BS, Electronic Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityMaster of Science, Compute Science, Master of Science, Compute Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Japanese, Chinese, English, Mandarin
Github Skills (5)
kite9
crash-reports1
go1
sentry1
golang1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jacquelineCelia/lexicon_discovery
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
KetoThrive/prediction_engine
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 12 days
pythonpredictionfollowingdeep-learningmachine-learning
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