Howdy y'all ๐ค โ I'm Haowen Jiang (how-wen, pronounced like "how" + "when"). A linguist who went rogue into AI engineering.
I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rice University and have since traded syntax trees for neural networks. I've built language tools, data products, and AI pipelines at companies ranging from scrappy startups to IBM. Before that, I was a university English lecturer in Taiwan.
From decoding human language in academia to building machines that understand it in industry โ same obsession, different tools.
- ๐ง Current role: AI Engineer @ IBM Client Engineering
- ๐ Past lives: Postdoc researcher (PKU), university English lecturer, NLP engineer at multiple AI startups
- ๐ฃ๏ธ Languages spoken: English, Mandarin, Taiwanese Southern Min
- ๐ฎ Side quests: Built Wordle games in indigenous languages of Taiwan (Paiwan, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien)
- ๐ Based in: Taipei, Taiwan
