{"id":14327,"date":"2021-10-18T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14327"},"modified":"2021-10-18T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:29:17","slug":"10-20-tech-industry-workshop-with-guest-speaker-david-q-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/10\/18\/10-20-tech-industry-workshop-with-guest-speaker-david-q-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech industry workshop 10\/20 &#8212; guest speaker David Q. Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Summary<\/strong>: tech industry workshop guest presentation &#8212; an NL engineering manager&#8217;s perspective<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>What<\/strong>: A short presentation on how voice assistants \/ Natural Language Understanding systems work and where different roles are in an organization, and an open Q&amp;A session<\/div>\n<div><strong>When<\/strong>: Wednesday 10\/20, 2-3:30pm EST<\/p>\n<div><strong>Where<\/strong>: Zoom (event will be virtual; contact Hadas Kotek for details) + 32-D769<\/div>\n<p><strong>Who<\/strong>: Dr. David Sun is an engineering manager in the Siri Natural Language team of the AI\/ML organization at Apple. His work leverages data science and machine learning to support research, development, and implementation of models for natural language processing to extend Siri\u0092s understanding and functionality. Prior to Apple, he worked as a consultant in the San Francisco office of the Monitor Government Venture Services (\u0093Monitor 360\u0094), the former political consulting practice of the Monitor Group, specializing in \u0093narrative analysis &amp; influencing\u0094.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>David received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Penn, advised by Prof. Barry Silverman. His research interests include Network Science, Decision Theory, and the Agent-Based Simulation &amp; Modeling approach in understanding the dynamics of coalitions in regions of conflict around the world.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: tech industry workshop guest presentation &#8212; an NL engineering manager&#8217;s perspective \u00a0 What: A short presentation on how voice assistants \/ Natural Language Understanding systems work and where different roles are in an organization, and an open Q&amp;A session When: Wednesday 10\/20, 2-3:30pm EST Where: Zoom (event will be virtual; contact Hadas Kotek for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14330,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions\/14330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}