Mu Yang

System Engineer Lead, Taiwan AI Labs

A data engineer and full‐stack developer with a research background in both computer science and applied mathematics domains. Skilled in front-end web design, deep learning, and parallel computing researches. Experienced in computer cluster formation and maintenance.

Education

2015-2017 | Nat'l. Taiwan Univ.
Master of Science

Institute of Applied Mathematical Sciences,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2011-2015 | Nat'l. Taiwan Univ.
Bachelor of Science

Department of Mathematics,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Employment

2021-Pres. | Taiwan AI Labs
System Engineer Team Lead

Taiwan AI Labs
Taipei, Taiwan

2017-2021 | Academia Sinica
Research Assistant

CKIP Lab, Institute of Information Science
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

2015-2015 | IBM Corp.
Internship

Thomas J. Watson Research Center
IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

2013-2017 | Nat'l. Taiwan Univ.
Research Assistant

Supervised by Prof. Weichung Wang
Institute of Applied Mathematical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
conducting researches of high-performance parallel computing on hybrid CPU-GPU structures

2016-2016 | Nat'l. Taiwan Univ.
Research Assistant

Supervised by Prof. Semin Kim
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
conducting researches of ordinal versus cardinal voting rules

2015-2017 | Nat'l. Taiwan Univ.
Teaching Assistant

  • High Performance Computing and Deep Learning (2017S)
  • Computational Methods and Tools for Data Science (2016F)
  • Introduction to Scientific Computing (2016F)
  • Introduction to Computational Mathematics (2016S)
  • Software Development for Computational and Data Science (2015F)
  • Numerical Linear Algebra (2015F)
  • Calculus (2016S, 2017S)
  • Computer Programming (2015F, 2016F)
  • Mathematic Software (2015S)

Publications & Presentations

Headword-Oriented Entity Linking: A New Entity Linking Task with Dataset and Baseline

Mu Yang, Chi-Yen Chen, Yi-Hui Lee, Qian-Hui Zeng, Wei-Yun Ma, Chen-Yang Shih, Wei-Jhih Chen
2020, 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’20)

Conference

HWE: Word Embedding with Heterogeneous Features

Jhih-Sheng Fan, Mu Yang, Peng-Hsuan Li, Wei-Yun Ma
2019, 13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC’19)

Conference

Particle Swarm Stepwise Algorithm (PaSS) on Multicore Hybrid CPU-GPU Clusters

Mu Yang, Ray-Bing Chen, I-Hsin Chung, Weichung Wang
2016, 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE-CIT’16)

Conference

Highly Scalable Parallelism of Integrated Randomized Singular Value Decomposition with Big Data Applications

Mu Yang
2017, Master’s Thesis, National Taiwan University

InverseMV: Composing Piano Scores with a Convolutional Video-Music Transformer

Chin-Tung Lin, Mu Yang
2021, arXiv

Parallelized Integration of Multiple Random Sketches from Randomized Singular Value Decomposition with Multi-Level Pairwise Integration Method

Mu Yang, Dawei Chang, Weichung Wang, Su-Yuen Huang, Ting-Li Chen
2019, 7th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM’19)

Conference

Parallel Implementations of Integrated Singular Value Decomposition (iSVD)

Mu Yang, Su-Yun Huang, Ting-Li Chen, Weichung Wang
2017, 9th SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM CSE’17)

Conference

A Parallel and Hybrid Sparse Linear System Solver

Mu Yang, Weichung Wang
2016, 7th Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop for Young Scholars in Applied Mathematics

Workshop

Awards & Certificates

Top 2 Short Answer, Top 3 Multiple Choice, Out of 143 Teams.

2018–2019, Formosa Grand Challenge (Chinese TOEFL-like listening comprehension QA). Official Post

Presentation Excellence Award

2016, 7th Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop for Young Scholars in Applied Mathematics.

Top 1 Academic Excellence Award

Fall 2011, Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University

Portfolio

Infodemic

2022–Present

Cognitive security in modern warfare: unveiling the battle against disinformation.

It revealing cognitive manipulation, collaborative patterns, and malicious dissemination to safeguard society.

Miin

2021–Present

Miin is a brand new project of Taiwan AI Labs.

It begins by understanding events through AI, then takes dynamic sources and opinions into consideration to establish a cross-platform comprehensive view.

We look forward to replacing social biases with diversification. Provide an environment of professionally trusted insights in replace of the polarized infodemic and restore the autonomy of the relationship between viewers and content creators.

CKIP Transformers

2020–2022

This project provides traditional Chinese transformers models (including ALBERT, BERT, GPT2) and NLP tools (including word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition).

CKIP Website

2019–2021

A landing website for CKIP Lab.

Website

CKIP CoreNLP

2018–2020

A python package of CKIP CoreNLP toolkits with sentence segmentation, word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named-entity recognition, sentence parsing, co-reference resolution.

E-HowNet Toolkit and Visualization

2018–2019

A toolkit (including database and syntax parsing) forE-HowNet, and its visualization demo.

CosmEL: Cosmetic Entity Linking

2017–2019

A novel entity linking project on cosmetic domain with dataset and baseline.
This project is an industrial-academic project with PIXNET Corporation.

HWE: Heterogeneous Word Embedding

2017–2018

A general and flexible framework of word embeddings to incorporate each type (e.g. word-sense, part-of-speech, topic) of contextual feature for learning feature-specific word embeddings in an explicit fashion.

iSVD: Integrated Singular Value Decomposition Algorithm

2015–2017

A parallel low-rank approximate singular value decomposition solver using integrated randomized algorithm. Implemented for multinode hybrid CPU-GPU systems.

PaSS: Particle Swarm Stepwise Algorithm

2013–2015

A parallel stochastic search algorithm for information criterion variable selection problems. Implemented for multinode hybrid CPU-GPU systems.

Ordinal Versus Cardinal Voting Rules

2016

A research about the performance and incentive compatibility of voting rules in a Bayesian environment.
My work including numerical analysis and MATLAB code implementation.

HiS: Hierarchical Schur Solver

2015–2016

A direct linear solver exploiting the sparse structure of multilevel nested dissection matrix to maximize parallel scalability on multinode GPU clusters.
My work including algorithm modifying, C++ code implementation, matrix structure and operation forming.

hHiS: Hybrid Hierarchical Schur Solver

2014–2016

A parallel linear solver for sparse symmetric positive definite matrices using direct/iterative method on each parts of k-way vertex partitioning to maximize parallel scalability on multinode systems.
My work including theoretical researching, algorithm modifying, programming design, C++ code implementation.

NBFMM: N-Body Simulation Using Fast Multipole Method with CUDA GPU

2016

An n-body simulation using fast multipole method (FMM) with GPU acceleration.
My work including project leading, C++ code implementation, CUDA GPU code implementation, and data structure designing.

Mandelbrot Set Zooming

2016

Mandelbrot Set Zooming using CUDA GPU acceleration.

Bank Account Management System Project

2015

A bank account management system.
My work including programming design, data structure developing, C++ code implementation, and team management.

Wonderful Transportation Forming

2013

A city traffic simulation of pedestrian, vehicle, and public transportation.
My work including programming design, data structure developing, Java code implementation, MATLAB GUI code modifying, and team management.

The Matrix Project

2012

A linear algebra library implemented with assembly language.
My work including programming design, data structure developing, Intel assembly code & main C code implementation, and team management.

Chess AI Project

2007

A chess game program with an AI that can defeat me.
My work including programming design, algorithm developing, data structure developing, C & Java code implementation, and Java GUI modifying.