I co-founded PolyAI in 2017 to develop conversational AI platform for Enterprise-Ready Voice Assistants.
I obtained my PhD in Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems at Cambridge University supervised by Professor Steve Young. My PhD was funded by Taiwan Cambridge Scholarship, and I was a member of Queens' College. I was also fortunate to work with Dr. Yuandong Tian at Facebook AI Research in the last summer of my PhD.
My primary research interest lies mainly in the intersection of deep learning and reinforcement learning for spoken dialogue systems, aiming to set up an unified framework for language understanding/replying and a system that is capable of scaling to broad domains and directly learn from human user interaction.
Prior to Cambridge, I received my Bachelor and Master degree in EECS from National Taiwan University, where I joined the Digital Speech Processing Laboratory held by Professor Lin-shan Lee and focused on statistical dialogue modelling for personalising pronunciation training in a dialogue game.
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Email: eddy@poly.ai