Mei-Yuh Hwang

Mei-Yuh Hwang is a Taiwanese speech recognition researcher who works for Mobvoi in Redmond, Washington, and holds a position as affiliate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington.

Education and career Hwang was a student at National Taiwan University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1986. She went to Carnegie Mellon University for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in 1993 with Kai-Fu Lee, Raj Reddy, and Xuedong Huang as faculty mentors. Her dissertation was Subphonetic Acoustical Modeling for Speaker-Independent Continuous Speech Recognition.

In 1994 she joined Microsoft with Xuedong Huang. Her projects at Microsoft included the Whisper dictation application, the Microsoft Speech API, multi-language dictation in Office XP, Microsoft Speech Server, Bing Translator, and the Chinese version of the Cortana virtual assistant. She also worked on leave from Microsoft as a researcher at the University of Washington from 2004 to 2008, working there on a system for monitoring Mandarin and Arabic language news media and producing English-language digests of their content.

In 2016 she was hired by Mobvoi to become their vice president of engineering.

Recognition Hwang was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to speech and language technology".