Akari Asai
Visiting Researcher at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkari Asai is a PhD candidate in NLP at the University of Washington and a visiting researcher at Meta, bringing a decade of experience across research internships and engineering roles at leading labs including AI2, Salesforce, Microsoft Research, and Google. Her work focuses on question answering, complex reasoning, and multilingual NLP, with a steady publication record available at her personal site. She combines deep research rigor with practical engineering experience—from browser and mobile search work to building NLP pipelines and annotation tools—enabling ideas to move quickly from prototype to production. Fluent in both Japanese and US research ecosystems, she has repeatedly bridged cross-cultural teams and applied ML to real-world products. An uncommon strength is her breadth across academia and industry, allowing her to pursue fundamental language modeling challenges while staying tuned to deployment constraints.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of WashingtonPolitical Science International Relationship Computer Science, Political Science International Relationship Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Tokyo
Github Skills (61)
wikipedia10
representations10
retrieval9
xor9
coveralls9
text-classification9
angularjs9
passage9
leaderboard9
vector9
visual-question-answering9
nlp9
python8
natural-language-processing8
comprehension8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AkariAsai/evidentiality_qa
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
AkariAsai/CORA
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 8 months
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