Linguist with a speech background, now building AI evaluation systems and product features in tech.
I am a linguist specializing in model evaluation, data operations, product research, and speech.
As a Linguistic Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, I lead ASR metrics and insights for the AI glasses, designing evaluation frameworks and annotation pipelines to pinpoint improvement areas across models for multiple languages and locales.
At Grammarly, I developed linguistic product features and novel model evaluation methodologies and drove large-scale training data collection for AI-powered writing features. I even have a patent!
I have a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, where I conducted experimental research on spoken language processing and bilingualism.
Speech, language, and multimodal AI
Model evaluation and data quality
Taxonomy and ontology design
Multilingualism, i18n + l10n
Accent, dialectal, and stylistic language variation
az.shen93[at]gmail[dot]com