Sophia Chan
Receptionist at CanTalk (Canada) Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Chan is a computational linguist and language technologist with eight years of experience bridging NLP research and applied language services, from building revision-detection tools for essay drafts to production AI engineering at ETS. With an academic foundation from the University of Washington (MS in Computational Linguistics) and a BSc in Linguistics with a CS minor, she combines strong linguistic insight with practical software skills in Python and cloud pipelines. Her work spans clinical and testing domains—updating genomic data pipelines, improving speech assessment tools, and interpreting in medical settings—reflecting a rare blend of technical, analytic, and multilingual communication strengths (Mandarin/English). Actively pursuing roles that diversify NLP systems, she brings hands-on experience deploying models and tooling, plus an interpreter’s attention to detail that improves model fairness and real-world usability.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonBSc in Linguistics Minor in Computer Science, BSc in Linguistics Minor in Computer Science at University of VictoriaMedical Interpretation and Translation Certificate (Mandarin/English), Medical Interpretation and Translation Certificate (Mandarin/English) at Simon Fraser University
Chinese, Chinese, taishanese
Github Skills (20)
anatomy5
data-management5
python5
automation3
single-cell-analysis3
pipeline3
sequencing3
sequence3
dagster3
database2
bioinformatics2
genomics2
file-transfer2
conda1
docker1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
schan27/BLMvocab
Jun 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
schan27/picify
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
NwHacks 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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