Summary
Yi-chang Chen is a Senior Technology Manager at MediaTek Research with 10 years of experience building and leading ML teams across language, vision, and speech AI. He has guided end-to-end research-to-product efforts, published eight peer-reviewed papers (INTERSPEECH, ASRU, ICIP) and led development of competitive LLMs Breeze-7B and BreeXe-8x7B that match GPT-3.5 performance in multilingual settings. His research contributions include generative fusion decoding for LLM–recognition fusion, the prompt-sensitive Clairaudience ASR model, and state-of-the-art unsupervised domain adaptation for text recognition. He pairs deep academic rigor with production know-how—shipping high-QPS recommender and AML systems and optimizing ML pipelines for latency-sensitive environments. A hands-on leader who mentors small research teams, he also runs a popular technical blog (YC Note) and performs as a guitar singer, reflecting a creative streak beyond engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at National Taiwan University
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at National Sun Yat-Sen University