Zhiyan Gao is a Lecturer and language technology specialist with a PhD in Linguistics and a decade of experience spanning academic research and industry work in speech and audio at ByteDance and George Mason University. She combines expertise in experimental phonetics, second language acquisition, and speech data annotation/analysis to drive research on foreign accents and endangered language preservation. As a language teacher turned AI-lab speech expert, she bridges classroom practice and computational methods, often writing scripts and tools to support annotation pipelines. Based in Shanghai, she brings a rare blend of field-oriented language documentation passion and hands-on experience with large-scale speech datasets.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Institute, Summer Institute at University of Colorado at Boulder
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Soochow University (CN)
Master of Education, Master of Education at George Mason University
Contributions:51 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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