Augustus Chen
❖ augustus.chen@mdpi.com | augustuscsj@gmail.com ❖ (+65) 8830 7521 ❖ Singapore
Work Experience
- Edited scholarly manuscripts to a publishable standard, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and adherence to MDPI’s house rules while maintaining author’s voice, across both Word and LaTeX formats; consistently maintained strong quality scores and high editing efficiency.
- Developed Lucius, a Python-based tool for detecting house rule violations and grammatical errors—with added LaTeX support, enhanced detection capabilities, and greater customization—as a complement to MDPI’s internal tool; received positive feedback from colleagues who have since incorporated it into their workflow.
- Conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis of a third-party AI grammar tool during departmental testing; synthesized editor feedback, identified key trends and issues, and authored a comprehensive report that was submitted to the vendor and informed internal evaluation and decision-making.
- Translated UNESCO and design council brochures and documents in support of Chongqing’s City of Design application; produced layouts in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Optimized an inefficient terminology management system used by a four-person translation team by restructuring the data from a shared Google Sheets glossary, which presented issues such as conflicting/duplicate entries, ambiguous abbreviations, and limited searchability for terms with multiple variants.
- Built a Python/Alfred tool that converted the glossary into a more structured format (JSON) and enabled features including fuzzy search, pinyin queries, and conflict detection, boosting speed and accuracy.
- Translated 200+ English film trailers into Chinese using AegiSub and served as one of two reviewers for a ten-member team—ensuring translation quality, synchronization, and formatting met internal quality standards.
- Improved team-wide output quality by tracking recurring errors, categorizing them, and providing structured feedback.
Projects and Skills
Projects
- Lucius: Error detection tool with LaTeX support, enhanced detection capabilities, and customization.
- Susan: Real-time efficiency tracking tool optimized for the English Editing workflow (github.com/csjaugustus/susan_demo).
- TermSearch: Lightweight computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool for quick term retrieval and management (github.com/csjaugustus/termsearch).
Skills
- Software: Proficient in Python and Excel (data analysis); Word, LaTeX, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (document formatting).
- Languages: English and Mandarin (native)
