Summary
Ting-yao Hsu is an AI research scientist with nine years of research and development experience spanning academia and industry. Based in State College, PA, he is currently an AI Research Scientist at TSMC, following a PhD-focused tenure at Penn State where he designed seq2seq and transformer-based post-editing schemes to diversify machine-generated narratives and developed Graph Convolutional Networks to improve visual storytelling quality. His work includes building an interactive image captioning system for mobile and web, and leading data collection of a 14,905-story dataset edited by humans. He holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from Penn State and a BS in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University, with a background that blends multimodal vision-language models with large language models and practical deployment. He has completed industry internships at Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern and diverse research stints at NEC Labs, Megagon Labs, and Academia Sinica, illustrating a track record of moving research into scalable applications. A driven researcher with an eye for cross-disciplinary impact, he aims to push multimodal AI, LLMs, and real-time captioning closer to production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Penn State University
Bachelor's degree, Compter Science, 3.5/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Compter Science, 3.5/4.0 at 國立清華大學
Chinese, English, 西班牙文