Wei Ding

Do you like automated customer service? Would you let robots watch your kids? If not, then you know that artificial intelligence (AI) is good at many things, but not everything. Professor Wei Ding is here to train the next generation of human interpreters that are tech-savvy and accountable for frustration-free communications.

After graduating from MIIS in 2007, Professor Ding passed the conference-level interpretation exam for the U.S. State Department. She has been a freelance interpreter ever since and started teaching part time at the institute in 2012. Her courses include consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, as well as sight translation into both Chinese and English.

Professor Ding is a versatile practitioner. She has interpreted for the rich and famous as well as countless unsung heroes in challenging settings such as aboard container ships, cargo planes, police cars, in prisons, on construction sites, at factories, housing projects, laboratories and radiation screening facilities.

Professor Ding is currently exploring AI tools that can improve interpretation. She was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan and lives on the Monterey Peninsula with her husband and their two children.