SonyAI
Chieh-Hsin (Jesse) Lai is a Research Scientist at SonyAI since June 2022, previously serving as a Senior Research Engineer at Sony from October 2021 to May 2022. Lai has extensive academic experience, having served as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Minnesota from September 2016 to September 2021, where responsibilities included studying robustness in generative models and anomaly detection tasks, along with mentoring undergraduate students in Advanced Statistics and Natural Language Processing. Prior roles include Research Consultant and Research Assistant positions, focusing on topics such as Harmonic Analysis and its applications. Lai holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics and a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, along with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from National Tsing Hua University. Additional educational experiences include a Summer Japanese Language Program at Meiji University and participation in an International Honor Workshop at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.