Qualifications
Founder and Managing Director of Meridian Linguistics, providing Asian-language training data, annotation, and translation to technology companies
Former Translation Product Manager and Head of Linguist Experience at Cadence Translate (Beijing)
Psycholinguistics researcher; clients include Naver, Alibaba, Airbnb, The Economist, and The New York Times
Expertise
Localization
Translation
Linguistics
Language Data & Annotation
Machine Translation
Psycholinguistics
founded Meridian Linguistics to help technology companies develop multilingual products and services for Asia. We specialize in collecting, annotating, translating, transcribing, and analyzing multilingual speech and text training data. Concurrently with running Meridian, I also oversee the Translation and International Transcription as Product Manager at Cadence Translate (Beijing), spearheading the launch of new technology (TMS, CAT, MT) and operational procedures.
Experience
Founder, Managing Director at Meridian Linguistics Ltd.
Jan 2012 — Present · 14 yrs 9 mos
Head of Linguist Experience at Cadence Translate
Feb 2022 to Dec 2022 · 10 mos
Translation Product Manager at Cadence Translate
Apr 2020 to Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos
Project Manager at Geotext Translations
Jan 2012 to Jan 2013 · 1 yr
Proofreader at Geotext Translations
Jan 2012 to Nov 2012 · 10 mos
Graduate Researcher and Teaching Assistant - Psycholinguistics at New York University
Jan 2010 to Jan 2012 · 2 yrs
Founder and Managing Director of Meridian Linguistics, providing Asian-language training data, annotation, and translation to technology companies
Former Translation Product Manager and Head of Linguist Experience at Cadence Translate (Beijing)
Psycholinguistics researcher; clients include Naver, Alibaba, Airbnb, The Economist, and The New York Times
Localization
Translation
Linguistics
Language Data & Annotation
Machine Translation
Psycholinguistics
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