Yi-chang Chen
CEO & Founder at Noopher AI
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolYi-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
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at National Sun Yat-sen University
Github Skills (66)
transformers10
ocr-recognition10
lora10
quantization10
ai10
fine-tuning10
gpt10
nlp10
agent10
natural-language-processing10
peft10
recurrent-neural-networks10
large-language-models10
grapheme10
keras10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GitYCC/crnn-pytorch
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) for image-based sequence recognition using Pytorch
Contributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pytorchrecurrent-neural-networksocr-recognitioncrnn-ctc
GitYCC/YCNote
May 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:35 PRs, 297 pushes, 43 branches in 8 years 2 months
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