Ryan Shim
Doctoral Researcher at LMU Munich – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolRyan Shim is a doctoral researcher in computational linguistics at LMU Munich with eight years of hands-on experience building NLP and speech systems focused on dialectal and linguistic variation. He has shipped production language and dialect identification systems at Sony—improving accuracy dramatically on closely related varieties—and deployed open-source LLMs and LangChain-based pipelines for semantic tasks. His background spans academic research and applied engineering, including work on phonetic error detection for language learners and low-resource compression-based classifiers. Fluent in bridging linguistic insight with pragmatic software engineering, he combines field knowledge of East Asian languages with experience in multilingual speech processing and practical deployment.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenSummer Exchange, Summer Exchange at Peking UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics at University of Stuttgart
English, Chinese, French, Korean, German
Github Skills (16)
speech7
audio7
python6
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
speech-recognition5
kaldi5
pytorch5
ai4
mixture3
mixture-model3
gaussian2
scraper1
json1
nlp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
b05102139/dialectR
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:66 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
b05102139/acoustic_distance
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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