Cynthia Zhong
Ph.D. Student In Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCynthia Zhong is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at MIT with nine years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of phonetics, phonology, and computational systems. Her research focuses on tone, East Asian languages, and crosslinguistic interactions in speech, informed by hands-on acoustic analysis and statistical methods from work at Berkeley PhonLab. She brings a rare tech-meets-language profile—undergraduate training in computer science, experience teaching large computer architecture and operating systems courses, and comfort with tools like Python, Praat, and forced aligners. Cynthia builds pedagogical software to clarify abstract phonological theory and has taught foundational courses to diverse student bodies, demonstrating both technical and communication strengths. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she leverages systems-level thinking from OS and hardware interests to approach language data with analytical rigor and engineering practicality.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese, Japanese, French, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
localsoftware/localcode-codesign
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
Local Code for the SFMoma
Contributions:7 pushes in 8 months
calvangs/23andWe
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.