Summary
Haoqi Li is a Senior Research Scientist with a PhD from USC and eight years of experience applying machine and deep learning to speech, language, and multimodal affective computing, with a strong focus on mental health applications. He has moved research into production-grade problems across industry—working on expressive speech generation and empathic voice interfaces at Hume AI, speaker recognition and spoofing detection at AWS, and accessibility and localization at Netflix. Haoqi’s work blends signal-level expertise (speech/audio processing, TTS, ASR) with representation learning under low-resource constraints, a skill honed during his doctoral projects on sparse networks and transfer learning. Based in Los Gatos, he pairs rigorous academic training with product-oriented research, and his cryptic GitHub tagline hints at a reflective, philosophical approach to code and impact.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Xidian University
Chinese, English