Work Experience
Amazon (April 2019 - Present)
- Sr. Applied Scientist
- Amazon Health (Present) and Alexa Speech
- (External) Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence
- VP of Research
- Research Scientist
- Research Intern
Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2015
- Minor in Computer Science
- Thesis: Emotional speech production: From data to computational models and applications
- Advisor: Prof. Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2010
- B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, February 2008
Awards
Winner of Interspeech Challenges
- Degree of nativeness sub-challenge (Septempber 2015)
- Cognitive load sub-challenge (May 2014)
- Pathological speech sub-challenge (September 2012)
- 2-nd Place Award at the 26-th KSEA-SWRC (February 2016)
- Recipient at 16th Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America (December 2015)
- Winner in 10-th International Seminar on Speech Production (May 2014)
- Recipient for Interspeech conference (September 2014)
- Viterbi Dean's fellowship (Fall 2010 - Spring 2011)
- Merit-based Award from the Dean (Fall 2011 - Spring 2014)
- Honors Student (Spring 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
- Merit-based University Scholarship (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)