Technology Specialist Computer Programmer

Hisao (Harry) M. Chang, D.Sc.

Email contact: *****.*****@*********.***

Overview

Career Objective:

Develop and Test Business/Consumer Oriented New Products & Services Using Data Science and/or Machine Learning Technologies

Professional Employment History

2018 – 2023 Honeywell, Honeywell Building Technology (HBT)

Develop the technical requirements for the embedded firmware for audio-based industrial sensors using AI-based machine learning technologies such as decision trees, support vector machines (SVM), and complex neural net (CNN). Analyze long-term trends in occupancy oriented building control technologies and building occupants behaviors and identify pain points and potential new products & services.

Develop and test video-based environmental and building occupancy comfort sensors using TensorFlow framework and APIs for measuring the CNN model performance.

Develop and test WiFi-based audio censor devices for the residential homes, combining camera-based video monitoring devices with audio/microphone-based analytics techniques in order to detect the special audio events in the residential hone environments.

2013 – 2018 Honeywell ACS Global Labs

2006 – 2013 AT&T Labs – Research

Lead Member of Technical Staff – responsible for the research activities in area of speech and NL-driven multimodal technologies and new IP-based service concepts requiring advanced ASR, TTS, and NL-based Dialog Technology.

2001- 2006 SBC Labs, Austin, TX.

Lead Member of Technical Staff – responsible for the company-wide speech technology related R&D, planning of new products/services for a group of highly diversified business clients within SBC, and building/maintaining a state-of-the-art speech lab for evaluating the core speech technologies from the vendor community before and during early deployment phase.

1995- 2000 (July) SBC Technology Resources, Austin, TX.

Responsible for the company-wide speech technology roadmap/strategy, technology/management consulting to individual business subsidiaries at $2M to $10M project levels with hands-on day-to-day involvement from day one throughout a typical 12-month product deployment cycle.

1993 (Apr) - 1995 SMTS, Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, St. Louis, MO.

Project management and strategic consulting to the exec-level decision processing involving speech technology enabled new revenue channels across both wireline/wireless networks. Chief technology specialist on a $100M-level network project through the entire product development cycle from central office engineering, 7x24 data center, QoS management, to marketing, sales, and customer retention.

1986 (Oct) – 1993 SMTS, Nynex Corporation Science & Technology, White Plains, NY.

1982 - 1983 Computer Programmer, Computer System Design Lab, Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

1977 – 1978 Testing Engineer, Nanjing Wireless Industry Corp, the largest state-owned mobile transmission equipment maker in China at that time.

Education History

• Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, May 1987. The dissertation supervised under Prof. Jerome Cox, Jr. and Dr. James D. Miller is based on his research in areas of formant-based vowel perception and recognition algorithms for speaker-independent digits recognition.

• MS in Computer Science, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN, December 1981.

• Enrolled in a 3-year Master degree program at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing, China in September 1978. Completed all required course credits from 9/1978 to 10/1980. During the same period, Chang worked on information retrieval technology and machine translation related projects at the Academy’s Institute of Computing Technology in Beijing, China from July 1979 to August 1980

• BS in Computer Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. January 1977.

Technical Publications & Professional Society Activities

Senior Member of IEEE in the Signal Processing Society 2004-2020; Served on the Technical Committee for the 6th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICATAI) in 1994 and the programming committee for IEEE ICATAI in 2003.

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