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Austin, Texas, United States

• Managing and executing localization projects for 38 locales from start to launch, including defining scope and goals, coordinating with international cross-functional teams, and ensuring accuracy in project timelines and target launch dates.• Addressing questions, concerns, and linguistic issues promptly both online and on-site, while creating detailed QA plans to guide testers in performing thorough testing and escalating issues.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Conducted UX copywriting and translation, localization, QA, and UI testing for a leading tech company headquartered in Cupertino, CA, NDA signed.• Demonstrated expertise in testing sophisticated and pre-launch products, including both hardware and software, by diligently identifying, reporting, tracking, and verifying potential localization bugs or functional errors.• Enabled teamwork with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate deliveries of localized products.• Reviewed and revised translations within software applications to ensure precision, linguistic accuracy, and cultural sensitivity, thereby enriching user experience and satisfaction.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Crafted SEO-optimized content for blogs and social media, incorporating trending topics to enhance online visibility and drive audience engagement.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Research assistant to Professor Ming XiangContact-induced syntactic change in Mandarin-English bilingual language production

San Diego, Ca

In-depth participation in research on Northern Toussian and its Balafon Surrogate Language, a language encoded by musical instruments, used in Burkina Faso, Africa.- Collated, annotated, and analyzed the data from fieldwork using ELAN and Praat;- Studied the ethnomusicology aspect of the surrogate language, evaluating the degree of surrogacy in languages and their music, and conducted a comparative analysis of the 'kouxian' (mouth harp) of the Yi ethnic group, China;- Conducted literature reviews on different topics, including p-center, prosody perception, serial verb construction, and multiple exponence, to design experiments on evaluating p-center in the Toussian musical surrogate language and weekly elicitation session.

Shanghai, China

- Annotated and corrected input linguistics data for model training for text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition projects in Mandarin, English, and Chinglish;- Made dictionaries for frequent entries on the bilibili.com site for optimal TTS and ASR results;- Discussed and set up standards for rap data annotations in Mandarin, including syllable duration, stress, and rhythms, monitored data recordings, correcting the pronunciation of speakers using phonetics skills for a rapper sound effect project.

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Designed and organized the course content for Cake English, a K12 English education app, based on language acquisition and language development theories;- Optimizing the course with more vivid content using a linguistics perspective, i.e. created an English pronunciation guide for primary school users;- Worked as an intern leader of a four-person small team, assigning tasks and managing work progress; co-worked with a team of 20+ people and collaborated with product management and customer services departments.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: 21K MAPH Scholarship

Undergraduate, Linguistics And Cognitive Science Double Major, Gpa 3.6; 8 Quarters Of Provost Honors

Activities and Societies: Women's Empowerment at UCSD Historian; YFM musical actress.