Xuewen Yao
Data Scientist
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolXuewen Yao is a data scientist and PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering based in Mountain View with nine years of experience building activity and event detection models across motion, audio, and text. He has interned at Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft and now works at Microsoft, translating research-grade sensing and NLP techniques into production-ready solutions. His academic work includes publications in IMWUT and ICASSP, reflecting a strong focus on multimodal sensing and real-world evaluation. Beyond models, he has experience synchronizing heterogeneous sensor streams and developing mobile-sensing paradigms for behavioral health, a practical angle that bridges lab research and deployed systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Engieering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Engieering at City University of Hong KongPembroke and King's Programme, Pembroke and King's Programme at University of CambridgeThe University of Maryland, College ParkPhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
intergration1
policies1
reinforcement-learning1
keyboard1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AgnesMayYao/academic-kickstart
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:275 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
AgnesMayYao/Infant-Crying-Detection
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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