Derek Chen
Member Of Technical Staff at Sundial
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Chen is a seasoned AI research scientist and founder focused on building practical data-cleaning AI agents in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently leads AI/ML research at Sundial and previously founded Soleda, where agents listen for and remember business context, ask clarifying questions, and rely on reinforcement learning rather than prompts. With 11 years in research and 5+ years building user-facing products, he blends dialogue-system expertise, data augmentation, and data denoising to improve data efficiency. His background spans Stanford Foundations of AI and CS, Berkeley Haas business, and NLP research at Columbia and UW, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary toolkit for product strategy and engineering. He is known for combining traditional machine learning with cutting-edge AI to deliver scalable, production-ready dialogue systems. Based in San Francisco, he bridges research, product, and go-to-market strategy while guiding teams to ship reliable AI agents at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mass Communications, B.A., Mass Communications at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 GPA, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 GPA at University of WashingtonB.S., Business Administration, B.S., Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessNLP Research Computer Science, NLP Research Computer Science at Columbia UniversityFoundations of AI, Computer Science, Foundations of AI, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (51)
player10
nlp8
python8
dialogue-systems8
natural-language-processing8
dialog8
neural-networks8
machine-learning8
agents8
cython8
text-classification8
pytorch8
data-science7
artificial-intelligence7
named-entity-recognition7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
derekchen14/task_oriented_dialog_agent
Oct 2017 - May 2019
Dialog agent for handling task oriented chat
Contributions:284 commits, 12 PRs, 211 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dialogagentchatdialogue-systemshandling
derekchen14/derekchen14.github.io
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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