Hwang was a student at National Taiwan University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1986. She went to Carnegie Mellon University for graduate study,[2] completing her Ph.D. in 1993[1] with Kai-Fu Lee, Raj Reddy, and Xuedong Huang as faculty mentors.[1][2] Her dissertation was Subphonetic Acoustical Modeling for Speaker-Independent Continuous Speech Recognition.[3]
In 1994 she joined Microsoft with Xuedong Huang.[2] Her projects at Microsoft included the Whisper dictation application, the Microsoft Speech API, multi-language dictation in Office XP, Microsoft Speech Server, Bing Translator, and the Chinese version of the Cortana virtual assistant.[1][2] She also worked on leave from Microsoft as a researcher at the University of Washington from 2004 to 2008,[1] working there on a system for monitoring Mandarin and Arabic language news media and producing English-language digests of their content.[2]
In 2016 she was hired by Mobvoi to become their vice president of engineering.[2]
