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Basics

Name Sinong Wang
Label PhD Student
Email theron.wang@uta.edu
Phone (681) 221-7301
Url https://theronwang.github.io/
Summary I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. My research interests include machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing. I am currently working on the project of unspuervised lexicon discovery.

Work

  • 2024.07 - present
    Web Developer
    CSE department, UT Arlington, TX, USA
    Developing the web app service for the CSE department at UTA.
    • Developed the web app service for the CSE department at UTA.
  • 2023.08 - 2024.07
    Teaching Assistant
    CSE department, UT Arlington, TX, USA
    Designed and graded assignments and exams for the undergraduate courses.
    • CSE 5302 Programming Language Concepts
    • CSE 4369 Natural Language Processing
    • CSE 6332 Cloud Computing

Volunteer

  • 2014.04 - 2015.07

    Zurich, Switzerland

    Lead Organizer
    People's Climate March
    Lead organizer for the New York City branch of the People's Climate March, the largest climate march in history.
    • Awarded 'Climate Hero' award by Greenpeace for my efforts organizing the march.
    • Men of the year 2014 by Time magazine

Education

  • 2023.08 - present

    Arlington, TX, USA

    PhD
    University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
    Computer Science
    • Animal Language Processing
  • 2021.08 - 2023.08

    Arlington, TX, USA

    Master
    University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
    Computer Science
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Mining
  • 2020.09 - 2023.06

    Shenyang, China

    Master
    Northestern University, Shenyang, China
    Software Engineering
    • Software Engineering
    • Data Structure

Awards

Certificates

Convolutional Neural Networks
DeepLearning.AI 2021-09-10
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
DeepLearning.AI 2021-06-20
Improving Deep Neural Networks
DeepLearning.AI 2021-05-30
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
DeepLearning.AI 2020-11-22

Publications

  • 2025.07.24
    Toward Automatic Discovery of a Canine Phonetic Alphabet
    ACL
    This paper presents an iterative algorithm inspired by human phonetic discovery, which is based on minimal pairs that determine phonemes by distinguishing different words in human language, and is able to produce a complete alphabet of distinct canine phoneme-like units. In addition, the algorithm produces a number of canine repeated acoustic units, which may correspond to specific environments and activities of a dog, composed exclusively of the canine phoneme-like units in the alphabet. The framework outlined in this paper is expected to function not only on canines but other animal species.
  • 2024.11.01
    Phonetic and Lexical Discovery of Canine Vocalization
    EMNLP
    This paper presents an iterative algorithm inspired by human phonetic discovery, which is based on minimal pairs that determine phonemes by distinguishing different words in human language, and is able to produce a complete alphabet of distinct canine phoneme-like units. In addition, the algorithm produces a number of canine repeated acoustic units, which may correspond to specific environments and activities of a dog, composed exclusively of the canine phoneme-like units in the alphabet. The framework outlined in this paper is expected to function not only on canines but other animal species.
  • 2024.02.25
    Phonetic and Lexical Discovery of a Canine Language using HuBERT
    Arxiv
    This system can highlight phoneme n-grams, present in the vocabulary, in the dog audio uploaded by users.

Skills

Computer Science
Statistics and Probability
Natrual Language Processing
Machine Learning
Web Development
Python, Pytorch, Flask, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Cooking
Chinese Cuisine
Baking
Desserts

Languages

English
Fluent
Mandarin
Naive Speaker

Interests

Drama
Stage Performance
Video Games
Hades
Slay the Spire
The Legend of Zelda
Civilization VI
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

References

Professor Chun Chang
Sinong is a child with a sincere heart, well-mannered and cultured. It is precisely his sincerity that allows him to immerse himself in his roles, steadily progressing toward his goal without fear of adversity.
Professor Wei Zhang
Failure is often the main theme in scientific research, and the ability to endure continuous setbacks is one of the necessary conditions for success. During the three years of working with Sinong, his passion for science, the constant flow of ideas, and his down-to-earth spirit have convinced me that he will become an excellent scientist.

Projects