Shao-Hung Hsiao

Software Development Engineer at Amazon

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Software Development Engineer at Amazon
    Sep 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

  • Research Intern at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Jul 2018 - Jan 2019 · 7 mos

    - Developed a voice-enabled chat bot specialized in providing step-by-step solutions for math problems and offers context-specific suggestions for written work in Chinese - Designed and Implemented a modified Alpha-beta pruning algorithm to the Speech-to-Text module using Python, improving the accuracy by 50% and reducing the run time by 150% in comparison to the original model - Used NLTK and KenLM to train the Hidden Markov model and n-gram model incorporated in the Speech-to-Text module - Performed data cleaning and analysis on historical news articles using Python with NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, and NLTK

  • University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
    • Undergraduate Researcher
      Feb 2018 - Dec 2018 · 11 mos

      - Built an online dashboard for digital economic/population trends (United Nations ECLAC project) integrated withwebscraper for digital demographic data - Trained word2vec models to analyze healthcare issues in the United States with articles from major news sites byusing Beautiful Soup and Selenium in Python - Wrote lab instructions on web scrapping for Computational Social Science course (CMN 150V)

    • Course Tutor
      Apr 2018 - Jun 2018 · 3 mos

      - Held three weekly lab sessions for 150 students in the Media Computation course provide lab instructions - Assisted students with no prior programming experience on Computer Graphics assignments

  • Volunteer Tutor at Computer Science for Kids
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2018 · 3 mos

    - Prepared weekly programming lesson for elementary and middle school students - Mentored students while they going through the problem sets

  • Private at R.O.C (Taiwan) Army
    Jun 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

    - Performed daily 65k2 (M16) rifle maintenance for the whole company - Responsible for artillery parameter calculation under Firing Command unit