Hi, I'm Jackie.

I'm a co-founder and Head of Technology at Subtle Computing. I build voice-isolation, ASR, VAD models, etc. to help your device better understand you and respond only to you in extreme SNR scenarios. Our first product is Voicebuds: earbuds with near-perfect wearer speech isolation, for clear calls in loud environments and AI chat and dictation at a volume nobody around you can hear. At Subtle I lead machine learning, backend and infrastructure, firmware development, and automated hardware/software testing.

Before Subtle, I did my CS PhD at Stanford with James Landay and Monica Lam, building the frameworks that make multimodal interfaces (voice, touch, and GUI together) practical to develop: ReactGenie, GenieWizard, and AMMA.

Now

• Subtle Computing came out of stealth with a $6M seed led by Entrada Ventures, with Amplify Partners and Abstract Ventures (TechCrunch, Nov 2025).
• Voicebuds debuted at CES 2026, where Engadget named them Best AI Hardware of CES 2026. They are open for preorder.