Yihua Zhou
Research Scientist (Speech Recognition) at Aispeech.com
Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYihua Zhou is a research scientist specializing in speech recognition with eight years of experience building and deploying edge-oriented keyword spotting, sound event detection, and speaker identification models. Based in Suzhou, he has delivered 20–50% relative improvements in SER for on-device KWS across 20+ real-world testsets while keeping false alarm rates steady and automating data-processing and training with a bespoke toolkit. His background spans NLP model training and production deployment (BERT fine-tuning, contrastive learning, TF-Serving/Triton/FastAPI) and earlier roles in quant analytics and web scraping, giving him a rare mix of signal-processing, ML engineering, and production systems expertise. He frequently researches novel architectures, training strategies, and augmentation tricks and partners closely with SDE and signal-processing teams to port models to chips. Outside his job title, his profile hints at a pragmatic, results-driven approach and a developer mindset—he maintains a personal site and a candid GitHub presence that reflects hands-on experimentation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Business Analytics, 1st Class Honors Degree, Master, Business Analytics, 1st Class Honors Degree at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityMaster, Business Analytics, 1st Class Honors Degree, Master, Business Analytics, 1st Class Honors Degree at Liverpool University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
hugo-theme10
python10
deep-learning10
speech10
gpu10
nvidia-docker10
part-of-speech10
seo10
semantic-parsing10
document-classification10
numpy10
neural-network10
entity10
classification10
text-classification10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
astro1boy/testDataV
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:537 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
SimZhou/yima
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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