Work Experience
Aug 2024 – Present
Research Assistant
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Jul 2023 – Jun 2024
Research Assistant
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
- Built and operated a long document summarization service (Python, FastAPI, Docker).
- Implemented chunking + hierarchical merge architecture.
- Integrated retrieval-augmented answering to improve query focus.
- Improved reliability and latency through batching/caching and timeouts/retries.
- Implemented Langchain, Tree of Thought, and Chain of Thought.
- Utilized multiple GPUs for computation to improve Rouge Score.
Sep 2021 – Jan 2022
NLP Full Stack Engineer
National Chengchi University — Learner Corpus of Slavic Languages
Taipei, Taiwan
- Designed and launched a searchable corpus web application (Django/FastAPI + SQL).
- Supported POS tags, windowed proximity, and syntactic filters.
- Implemented pagination, indexing, and parameterized queries to ensure security and efficiency.
- Managed Linux server deployment and daily maintenance.
- Processed Russian and Czech languages using Spacy NLP.
Jan 2021 – Feb 2023
Research Assistant
National Chengchi University — Service Science Research Center
Taipei, Taiwan
- Built data preprocessing and evaluation tools for internal ML/NLP projects.
- Maintained demo systems and documentation.
- Served as a Teaching Assistant, designing NLP courses and practical assignments for DL and ML.
- Assisted professors in refining thesis outlines, facilitating the publication of multiple research papers.
- Designed practical NLP coding materials for a large number of employees at Taiwan's largest telecom company, receiving positive feedback.