CV | Ming-Kun Chou

Education

2026: National Cheng Kung University, Cross College Elite ProgramBachelor's degree. Coursework in electrical engineering and computer science; completed the computer science micro-program.
2018: Kaohsiung Industrial High School, Comprehensive ProgramEmbedded systems and industrial wiring.

Experience

Present: Full-time Research Assistant, Multilingual Intelligent Mind Service Lab (Mi2S), Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, NCKUPI: Prof. Wen-Hsiang Lu. Speech recognition evaluation, knowledge-graph question answering, retrieval systems, and field deployment.
2020: Superalloy Industrial Co., Ltd.Horizontal casting and materials science.
Earlier: Information Systems Unit, NCKU Library; part-time research assistant on a National Taiwan University research project

Publication

Deployment Risk Probe Framework (DRPF): Complementing CER with Actionable Failure Modes部署風險探針框架（DRPF）：以可處置錯誤型態補充 CER

Ming-Kun Chou, Yu-Tai Lo, Wen-Hsiang Lu

ROCLING 2026 (38th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing), Archival Track. Oral presentation, November 2026. To appear.

Research projects

NSTC: VOICE: voice-interaction platform for advance care planningKnowledge graph, language-model question answering, app prototype. PIs: Yu-Tai Lo, Wen-Hsiang Lu, Chung-Ching Huang, Sheng-Yu Fan.
NSTC: iSeeME: guided emotional disclosure and assessment appApp development and model integration. PIs: Mei-Feng Lin, Wen-Hsiang Lu.
ITRI: Mandarin–Taiwanese speech recognition for a hospital service desk, with Chi Mei Medical CenterData augmentation, Whisper fine-tuning, on-site deployment.
Industry: On-premise document retrieval system, with Kuen LingRetrieval system development and on-site deployment.

Descriptions on the Research page

Undergraduate capstone projects

2026: Skeleton-based fall detection: model–hardware co-designIndividual project. Model design, FPGA accelerator, measurement on PC, Jetson and FPGA. Advisor: Prof. Meng-Hsueh Li.
2025: DST-FallNet: audio-visual fall detection on an edge deviceIndividual project. Model training, fusion method, edge deployment. Advisor: Prof. Meng-Hsueh Li.

Honors and awards

2025: First place, Smart Cultural Tourism track, Visioning the South proposal competitionLead proposer in a cross-disciplinary team of four.
2021: Academic Excellence Award (書卷獎), NCKURanked first in class, fall semester.
2021: Eighth place, men's 110 m hurdles, National Intercollegiate Athletic GamesRepresented NCKU as a member of the track and field team.

Leadership and outreach

2021–22: President, Cross College Elite Program Student Association; student council representativeOrganized a forum between students and the program director on course selection and program rules, a career workshop, and the program's booth at the NCKU bike festival.
2026: Demonstrated Kasih, the lab's multilingual translation app, at a senior-care expo in Taipei
: NCKU Mobile Library: taught design thinking at Muzha Elementary School in Neimen, Kaohsiung
: NCKU Ci You Society: reading camp at a rural elementary school

Skills

Languages	Python, C, C++
Speech and language	Whisper fine-tuning, ASR error analysis, TTS data augmentation, RAG, GraphRAG, Ollama
Deep learning	PyTorch, CNN, LSTM, 1D-CNN, ONNX Runtime, INT8 quantization
Systems	Flask, MySQL, ChromaDB, Neo4j, Flutter
Embedded and hardware	Jetson Nano, Raspberry Pi, STM32, ESP32, Arduino, PYNQ-Z2 FPGA, Vitis HLS

Other

Clarinet in the Kaohsiung Industrial High School Concert Band, its alumni band, and the Kaohsiung Civic Wind Orchestra. Taiwanese voice-over for a 2025 NCKU event promotion, and an animated short for an NCKU student film competition on disaster preparedness.