〚about〛

Hi, I am Blaise Wang. Welcome to my homepage.

I am a 2019 graduate from the University of Sheffield in Computer Science with Speech and Language Processing.

I work as an R&D engineer in Beijing Chaitin Tech, an Alibaba Group subsidiary.

Experience

• R&D Engineer, Beijing Chaitin Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China. Dec 2019 - Present

  • Web Application Firewall of Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack - backend side.
  • I am excited about the challenges ahead!

• Software Engineer (Part-time), VoiceBase Centre, the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Nov 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Performance evaluation of DeepSpeech with AMI, WSJ, and Switchboard datasets.

Project

• Image2LaTeX - Open-Source Version of Mathpix Snip App

  • Extract and convert formula images to $\LaTeX$ format by JavaFX and MathpixOCR API
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That awkward moment when someones builds a cheaper, open-source version of your app, using your open API...

We're not even mad, we're impressed 😎https://t.co/fVix9vGolE pic.twitter.com/mqhBbv8YfP

— Mathpix (@MathpixApp) March 23, 2020

Education

• University of Sheffield, UK, Nov 2019

  • M.S. Computer Science with Speech and Language Processing
  • Dissertation: Topic Label Generation with the RNN and seq2seq Models (kaggle notebook)

Miscellanea

• I like to build reliable software from the bottom up.
• I cook a lot.
• I play football.