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sophiayk20/README.md
  • 🐳 Hi! My name is Sophia and I am a recent graduate of Yale University with interests in speech and natural language processing.
  • 👀 My interests involve multilingual speech and natural language processing and multimodal translation.
  • 📫 I can be reached at sophia.kang@yale.edu.
  • 🌱 Link to my GitHub Page is https://sophiayk20.github.io.
  • 🌐 I speak three languages: English, Korean, and Spanish :)
  • 🔗 LinkedIn Profile

Honors & Achievements

  • ElevenLabs 2025 Worldwide Conversational AI Agents Hackathon NYC Chapter Track Winner @ New York, New York, United States 🇺🇸

  • ACL 2024 Student Research Workshop Travel Grant @ Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭

  • Interspeech 2024 Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop Scholarship @ Kos, Greece 🇬🇷

  • MBZUAI 2024 Undergraduate Research Internship Program Best Team @ Abu Dhabi, UAE 🇦🇪

  • HackMIT 2022 Finalist @ Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  • Publications: 2 ACL papers (2024 - only author, 2025 - team), 1 Interspeech paper (2025 - team)

Employment

  • Aug 2025 – Current: Software Engineer @ Amazon 🇺🇸
    Programmatic video advertising for live streaming events on Prime Video

  • May 2024 – Jun 2024: Research Intern, NLP @ MBZUAI 🇦🇪
    Multilingual natural language understanding (NLU) and cross-lingual generalization with encoder models

  • Jan 2024 – Apr 2024: Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ NAVER Cloud 🇰🇷
    Text-to-Speech Natural Language Processing

  • Jun 2023 – Aug 2023: Software Engineer Intern, ML @ Samsung Electronics 🇰🇷
    Text-to-Speech Acoustic Processing

  • Aug 2022 - Dec 2023: Teaching Assistant @ Yale University 🇺🇸
    Data Structures and Programming Techniques, Department of Computer Science

Education

  • 🎓 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Economics @ Yale University

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  1. covoswitch covoswitch Public

    Code for "CoVoSwitch: Machine Translation of Synthetic Code-Switched Text Based on Intonation Units" (Accepted at ACL-SRW 2024) 🇹🇭

    Python 5 2

  2. whisper-asr whisper-asr Public

    Forked from phucd5/whisper-asr

    Fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper for Multilingual ASR with Transformers

    Python

  3. sophiayk20.github.io sophiayk20.github.io Public

    Jekyll GitHub Pages repository

    Ruby

  4. f23-here f23-here Public

    Course Project for Yale's CPSC 439/539 Software Engineering course [Fall 2023]

    Swift

  5. UGRIP_MST UGRIP_MST Public

    Research Intern Project @ MBZUAI. Multilingual Multi-task Statement Tuning of Encoder Models for Zero-Shot Task Generalization. Won UGRIP 2024 Best Team.

    Jupyter Notebook 1 3

  6. hackmit22 hackmit22 Public

    Project submitted to HackMIT 2022 (HackMIT 2022 Finalist)

    JavaScript