About Me: Yi-Chang Chen

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Yi-Chang (YC) Chen ้™ณๅฎœๆ˜Œ

| Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yi-chang-chen-aba1b6114/
| Github: https://github.com/GitYCC
| Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003716013282
| Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/yc.note
| Website: https://ycc.idv.tw/
| Email: [email protected]

ABOUT
Enthusiastic machine learning engineer/researcher with over 6 years of experience, specializing in vision, language, and speech AI. Proficient in leading research teams with 3 years of demonstrated experience, adept at developing new technologies for practical applications. Published author of 5 machine learning papers, including contributions accepted by prestigious conferences such as INTERSPEECH, ASRU, and ICIP. Additionally, I manage the YCNote blog and fan page.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
๐Ÿ“Œ [Language] Developed Breeze-7B and BreeXe-8x7B, with Breeze outperforming other models at the same size level in Chinese, and BreeXe performing on par with GPT3.5 in both English and Traditional Chinese.
๐Ÿ“Œ [Speech] Proposed a novel prompt-sensitive speech recognition model, Clairaudience, leading to the acceptance of our paper at ASRU 2023.
๐Ÿ“Œ [Vision] Proposed innovative unsupervised domain adaptation methods for text recognition seq-to-seq models, achieving SoTA results on public datasets. Accepted for presentation at ICIP 2022.
๐Ÿ“Œ [Language] Introduced a novel architecture for Mandarin grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) conversion, named g2pW, achieving SoTA performance on a public dataset. This work has been accepted for presentation at INTERSPEECH 2022.

EXPERIENCE
๐Ÿ“Œ MediaTek Research, Senior Technology Manager | Mar. 2024 - Present @Taipei, Taiwan
๐Ÿ“Œ MediaTek Research, Senior Machine Learning Researcher | Mar. 2023 - Mar. 2024 @Taipei, Taiwan
๐Ÿ“Œ E.Sun Commercial Bank, Lead Machine Learning Researcher | Feb. 2021 - Mar. 2023 @Taipei, Taiwan
๐Ÿ“Œ E.Sun Commercial Bank, Machine Learning Engineer | Mar. 2020 - Feb. 2021 @Taipei, Taiwan
๐Ÿ“Œ Bridgewell, Machine Learning Engineer | Mar. 2018 - Mar. 2020 @Taipei, Taiwan
๐Ÿ“Œ Ur Warm Pet Cafe, Resident Singer | Mar. 2017 - Mar. 2018 @Hsinchu, Taiwan
๐Ÿ“Œ TSMC, Photo Lithography Software R&D Engineer | Nov. 2015 - Mar. 2018 @Hsinchu, Taiwan

PUBLICATIONS
๐Ÿ“Œ Feng-Ting Liao, Yung-Chieh Chan, Yi-Chang Chen, Chan-Jan Hsu, Da-shan Shiu, โ€œZero-shot Domain-sensitive Speech Recognition with Prompt-conditioning Fine-tuning,โ€ in ASRU, 2023. [Paper][Code]
๐Ÿ“Œ Yi-Chang Chen, Yu-Chuan Chang, Yen-Cheng Chang, and Yi-Ren Yeh, โ€œg2pW: A Conditional Weighted Softmax BERT for Polyphone Disambiguation in Mandarin,โ€ in INTERSPEECH, 2022. [Paper][Code]
๐Ÿ“Œ Yen-Cheng Chang, Yi-Chang Chen, Yu-Chuan Chang, and Yi-Ren Yeh, โ€œSMILE: Sequence-to-Sequence Domain Adaptation with Minimizing Latent Entropy for Text Image Recognition,โ€ in ICIP, 2022. [Paper]
๐Ÿ“Œ Yi-Chang Chen, Yu-Chuan Chang, Yen-Cheng Chang, and Yi-Ren Yeh, โ€œTraditional Chinese Synthetic Datasets Verified with Labeled Data for Scene Text Recognition,โ€ in DLVDR Workshop on ICPR, 2022. [Paper][Code]
๐Ÿ“Œ Yi-Chang Chen, Chun-Yen Cheng, Chien-An Chen, Ming-Chieh Sung, and Yi-Ren Yeh, โ€œIntegrated Semantic and Phonetic Post-correction for Chinese Speech Recognition,โ€ in ROCLING, 2021. [Paper][Code]

HONORS
๐Ÿ“Œ The top 5% (rank: 34/12,784) of STAGE 1 of the Global Alphathon 2022, hosted by WorldQuant (2022)
๐Ÿ“Œ T-Brain: AICUP2021 Traditional Chinese scene text recognition 2nd Place (2021)
๐Ÿ“Œ Best Paper Award in ROCLING 2021 (2021)
๐Ÿ“Œ T-Brain: AICUP2021 Traditional Chinese scene text detection 7th Place (2021)
๐Ÿ“Œ Kaggle: Shopee - Price Match Guarantee Top 3% (2021)
๐Ÿ“Œ Kaggle: Shopee Code League - Address Elements Extraction Top 3% (2021)
๐Ÿ“Œ T-Brain E.Sun House Price Prediction Competition 1st Place (2019)
๐Ÿ“Œ Deans' Award for Excellent Master Thesis (2014)
๐Ÿ“Œ Honorary member, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of The Republic of China (2012)
๐Ÿ“Œ Excellent Graduate of Bachelor in Physics (2012)