Hongbin QING /xʊŋpɪn tɕʰɪŋ/

Education

City University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰

  • Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Neurolinguistics

University of Rochester 🇺🇸

  • M.S. in Computational Linguistics

Sichuan University 🇨🇳

  • B.A. in Chinese Language & Literature (minor in Computer Science)


Professional Experience

EARS, HK Tech 300 / HKSTP Program

Person in Charge       2023.08 - present

  • Led the entrepreneurship team to successfully win the HK Tech 300 Seed Fund and the HKSTP IDEATION Grant. EEG-Assisted heaRing aidS (EARS) aims to use EEG signals to decode selective attention from the human brain and improve hearing aids’ voice amplification algorithm in a multi-talker environment.

Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Assistant       2020.09 - 2021.01

  • Joined the Reading and Visual Cognition Lab, simulated some behavior experiment data with the diffusion model, trying to study the word frequency effect in the Chinese reading process.

Scientific American, Linkresearcher.com

Part-time Academic Editor       2019.11 - 2020.09

  • Responsible for editing ten academic articles per week in the fields of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

Wisesoft Co., Ltd.

Software Development Engineer       2018.11 - 2019.02

  • Partook in the facial recognition application development, provided technical solutions, and made suggestions for improvement in real-time software development and maintenance.
  • Wrote code for technical documents and related design documents during the project development process. Offered regular and timely feedback to the project manager.

Database and Knowledge Engineering Lab, SCU

Research Assistant       2017.10 - 2018.10

  • Divided ancient Chinese text into different themes (clusters) and extracted the cluster labels automatically.
  • Conducted literature searches, algorithm learning, and system implementation. Joined the lab seminar about machine learning.


Languages and Skills

  • Mandarin (native) - Sichuan & Nanjing Dialect, Cantonese (proficiency), English (proficiency)

  • Python, C++, R, Lisp, SPSS, HTML, MATLAB, LaTeX, Shell Scripting…

  • Linguistics Tools: NLTK, Praat…


Hobbies and Interests ☯️

  • Chinese poetry, I-Ching (Zi wei dou shu “紫微斗数”), Vocality, Badminton