Siyao Peng
Postdoctoral Researcher at LMU Munich – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSiyao Peng is a postdoctoral researcher at LMU Munich with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computational linguistics and applied NLP. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from Georgetown and combines deep academic training with industry experience at Tencent, Baidu, and Pearson, shipping production-ready models and contributing to PaddleNLP. Her work spans text summarization, quality estimation, entity recognition, and few-shot learning, including a top-ranked result in the WMT 2020 sentence-level quality estimation task. Siyao is skilled at translating research into practical tooling and datasets, evidenced by migrating a pointer-generator summarization model into PaddlePaddle and augmenting training data to boost real-world performance. Based in Munich and entering an employment-free period from April 2026, she blends multilingual linguistics background with strong applied math instincts from a UC Berkeley AB. Colleagues describe her as a researcher who consistently bridges rigorous evaluation with production standards, often uncovering simple data-augmentation fixes that yield outsized gains.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Mathematics; French; Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Mathematics; French; Linguistics at University of California, BerkeleyMiddle & High School, Academic - science, Middle & High School, Academic - science at The High School Attached to Hunan Normal UniversityPh.D. student, Linguistics, Ph.D. student, Linguistics at Stony Brook UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at Georgetown UniversityMaster’s Degree, Linguistics, Master’s Degree, Linguistics at Leiden University
French, Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (80)
similarity-search10
transformers10
neural-search10
python10
arabic-nlp10
coreference10
annotations10
semantic-search10
lda10
dialogue-systems10
semantic-analysis10
image-generation10
phonetics10
compression10
embedding10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nert-nlp/Chinese-SNACS
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
logan-siyao-peng/GCDT
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year
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