Yiping Kang

Post-doctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan

About me

I enjoy taking the latest and greatest technological innovation and creating products that provide tangible value for the user. Leveraging my deep roots in science and research, I work on revolutionary products that solves people’s real day-to-day need. I am currently managing the Clinc AI Platform, the world’s most sophisticated conversational AI platform, where I am taking the latest innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and productizing as toolsets, enabling anyone to build the most natural and “human-in-the-room” conversational AI experience. The Clinc AI Platform is now serving more than 7 million users worldwide.

Before joining Clinc, I earned my Ph.D. from University of Michigan, working with Professors Lingjia Tang and Jason Mars. My research focus on hardware and software system design for emerging intelligent applications, such as Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa. Through identifying the various inefficiencies exist across the system layer, in both the hardware system design and the machine learning model training process, I designed and implemented optimization techniques to improve software system performance and machine learning performance, in the interests of providing a more natural and responsive end-user experience.

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering, September 2014 - August 2018

Thesis: From Compute to Data: Across-the-Stack System Design for Intelligent Applications

M.S. in Computer Science Engineering, September 2014 - May 2016
B.S.E. in Computer Engineering, September 2012 - April 2014

Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

B.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, September 2010 - August 2014

Publications

Data Collection for a Production Dialogue System: A Clinc Perspective
Yiping Kang, Yunqi Zhang, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Parker Hill, Johann Hauswald, Michael A. Laurenzano, Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars
16th Annual Conference Of the North American Chapter of the Association of the Computational Linguistics (NAACL) , New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2018

Neurosurgeon: Collaborative Intelligence Between Cloud and the Mobile Edge.
Yiping Kang, Johann Hauswald, Cao Gao, Austin Rovinski, Trevor Mudge, Jason Mars, Lingjia Tang
22nd International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) , Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 2017

Designing Future Warehouse Scale Computers for Sirius, An End-to-End Voice and Vision Personal Assistant.
Johann Hauswald, Michael A. Laurenzano, Yunqi Zhang, Hailong Yang, Yiping Kang, Cheng Li, Austin Rovinski, Arjun Khurana, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor Mudge, Vinicius Petrucci, Lingjia Tang and Jason Mars.
In the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2016

DjiNN and Tonic: DNN as a Service and Its Implications for Future Warehouse Scale Computers
Johann Hauswald, Yiping Kang, Michael A. Laurenzano, Quan Chen, Cheng Li, Ron Dreslinski, Trevor Mudge, Jason Mars and Lingjia Tang.
42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Portland, OR, USA, 2015.

Quality-of-Service for a High-Radix Switch
Nilmini Abeyratne, Supreet Jeloka, Yiping Kang, David Blaauw, Ronald Dreslinski, Reetuparna Das and Trevor Mudge.
51st Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2014.

Patents

TBA