Michael Xie is an interdisciplinary data scientist and linguist blending 10 years of technical and research experience with elite-level competitive figure skating. Currently an undergraduate research assistant at Berkeley’s Biological and Artificial Languages Lab and affiliated with Johns Hopkins/Allen Institute MD-PhD work in neural dynamics, he focuses on modeling and speech/linguistics applications including TTS and language revitalization. He has hands-on experience across startups and consulting—ranging from wellness tech and skincare strategy to fashion-market analysis—bringing product-minded rigor to research problems. Michael pairs front-end and data-science skills from UC Berkeley with practical speech-processing internships and research that bridge computational models and animal/biological studies. Outside the lab, his discipline as a nationally ranked skater and team captain informs leadership, resilience, and high-stakes performance under pressure. A curious polymath, he often connects technical work with human-centered storytelling and recruitment/brand strategy to broaden impact.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Linguistics at UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science
High School, High School at California Connections Academy @ Ripon
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Washington Connections Academy
Bachelor of Arts - BA Data Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Data Science at UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
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.