Summary
Robin Lu is an AI/NLP expert with 11 years of engineering experience and over seven years focused on conversational AI, deep learning, and knowledge graphs, including research and product work at Fortune Global 500 company Midea. He blends rigorous linguistics training (M.S. in Computational Linguistics and PhD-level study) with symbolic AI and linguistic typology to build more transparent, interpretable models for dialog and generative applications. His background spans academia and industry—from lecturing in speech technology to hands-on AGI and OpenCog consulting—giving him a rare cross-disciplinary view of language, cognition, and systems. Based in San Jose, he is known for integrating conceptual networks and hierarchical knowledge representations into practical NLP pipelines that drive business value. An implicit strength is his ability to translate deep linguistic insights into production-ready data pipelines and models that improve both performance and explainability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD) Linguistics at University at Buffalo
Master of Arts (M.A.) Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.) Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese, Japanese