title: Yuqing Gao
text: # Yuqing Gao
  
  Yuqing Gao is a Computer Scientist noted for her research on middleware and speech-to-speech translation.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Gao received a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Southeast University in Jiangsu, China in 1989.
  
  She worked at Apple Computer from 1993-1995. She had a long career at IBM as a manager and researcher from 1995-2014, and was an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2013. Between 2015 and 2020, she was with Microsoft. As of 2020, she is with Amazon.
  
  ## Awards
  
  Her notable awards include:
  
  * IEEE Fellow (2009)
  * 2009 ABIE Award Winner
  