About Me

Kaisheng Yao

I enjoy working in machine learning for natural language processing, speech recognition, and more recently finance.

I work as a senior staff engineer at Ant Financial. Before that, I was a researcher at Microsoft Research from Dec 2013 to July 2016. I also worked in speech production group in Microsoft, Texas Instruments, University of California at San Diego, and ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Labs. I spent 4 months in a quantitative trading firm in New York before joining Ant Financial.

I have more than thousands of citations of my 60 publications. I have 20+ pending and approved patents.