This is Qiang (how to pronounce 强). I’m currently a senior applied scientist in Alexa AI. Prior to that, I had wonderful years as a research scientist in AllenNLP at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and as a Ph.D. student in the CogComp Group (UIUC/UPenn) led by Prof. Dan Roth. My research interests include natural language understanding and machine learning. Please find my CV here.
Education
- 2016-2019: Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, UIUC [Thesis]
- 2017: Visiting student, University of Pennsylvania
- 2013-2016: Master in Signal Processing and Biomedical Imaging, UIUC [Thesis]
- 2012: Summer student intern, University of Southern California
- 2010-2013: Bachelor of Economics, Tsinghua University
- 2009-2013: Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
Work Experience
- Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Boston, MA, 2022 —
- Applied Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Boston, MA, 2020 — 2022
- Research Scientist, AllenNLP, Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Irvine, CA, 2019 — 2020
- Machine Learning SDE Intern, Ads Ranking, Facebook, Seattle, WA, Summer 2017
- Research Intern, Computational Behavior Group in ISI, USC, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2012
- Research Intern, Mobile and Sensing Systems Group, MSR Asia, Beijing, Spring 2012
Teaching Experience
Awards & Honors
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for ECE120, 2017
- The YEE Fellowship, College of Engineering, 2016
- Finalist for the Best Paper Award, IEEE ISBI, 2015
- National Scholarship, Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2010-2012
Contact
“first name initial” “last name” at amazon dot com