Xing Shi
Research Scientist at DiDi
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolXing Shi is a Research Scientist with 13 years of experience specializing in applied machine learning and language technologies, currently based in Los Angeles. He has held research roles at DiDi and Microsoft Research Cambridge, where he built ML-driven translation systems and probabilistic AST-based code models. As a founder at Howtospeak.org he engineered cross-lingual phonetic generation services, grew a WeChat audience to 10k+ users, and onboarded 100+ developers to his API—demonstrating product instincts alongside research rigor. Earlier work includes automating patent drafting for attorneys, showing a knack for turning complex legal and linguistic problems into deployable systems. He holds a B.E. from Tsinghua and pursued doctoral studies in Computer Science at USC, blending top-tier academic training with hands-on product and research experience.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at USCB.E, Computer Science and Technology, B.E, Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
machine-translation10
entity-linking10
datasets10
question-answering10
nlp10
interpretation9
natural-language-processing9
implicit9
recommender8
sequence8
cuda-toolkit7
discourse7
sequence-to-sequence7
cuda6
pipeline6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shixing/CDS
Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
shixing/Timus
Oct 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 6 months
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