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Hongxu Xu

Hongxu Xu

PhD Student (May 2025 – Present)
Supervised by Prof. Chengnian Sun
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, Canada

B.Sc. in Computer Science (Sep 2014 – Jun 2018)
Beijing Normal University, China

Research Interests

  • Software Engineering
  • Programming Languages

without a focus yet…

Socials

WeChat MP

Misc.

  • Chinese Name: 许宏旭
  • Pronunciation: Hong-shyoo (IPA: [xʊŋ ɕy])

Publications

Papers

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Books

Experience

PhD Student (May 2025 – Present)

Supervised by Prof. Chengnian Sun

Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, Canada

Senior SDE (Sep 2022 – Mar 2025)

Seed/Data Speech Team
ByteDance, Shanghai, China

Led the development of the Text-to-Speech engine and contributed to the Doubao AI assistant application.

SDE-2 (Jan 2021 – Sep 2022)

MSAI Team
Microsoft STC-Asia, Suzhou, China

Led the development of Microsoft WordBreaker and initiated a modern NLP toolkit for Office 365.

SDE (Jul 2018 – Aug 2021)

MSAI Team
Microsoft STC-Asia
Beijing, China (Transferred to Suzhou, Jiangsu, China in May 2019)

Worked on 20-year-old Microsoft WordBreaker.

Short-Term Contributor (Nov 2020 – Jan 2021)

Windows APS Team (work on a secondment)
Microsoft STC-Asia, Suzhou, China

Contributed to the formation of the new team, and Windows 11 application development.

B.Sc. in Computer Science (Sep 2014 – Jun 2018)

Beijing Normal University, China

SDE Intern (Jul 2017 – Dec 2017)

Bing Search Relevance Team
Microsoft STC-Asia, Beijing, China

Answer triggering model development for Bing Search.

Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate, Beijing Normal University, 2018
  • Top Ten Volunteer, Beijing Normal University, 2015
  • First Prize, National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP), 2013

Teaching