Amir Zur
PhD Student, NLP at Stanford University
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolAmir Zur is a PhD student in NLP at Stanford with nine years of hands-on experience spanning academia and industry, including a recent data scientist role at Microsoft. He blends formal interests in computation and probability theory with practical work in linguistics and computer science, often serving as a bridge between theoretical models and applied data workflows. At Stanford he has taught and led sections, demonstrating a knack for translating complex concepts to learners and collaborators. His background suggests strengths in rapid learning, team collaboration, and rigorous quantitative thinking applied to language technologies. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pursues side projects that reflect a curiosity beyond his core research, signaling an appetite for creative, cross-disciplinary problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at Stanford University
Github Skills (1)
intervention7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AmirZur/latent-gen
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
AmirZur/transformers-hg
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Official code repository for the paper: Learning Syntax Without Planting Trees: Understanding When and Why Transformers Generalize Hierarchically
Contributions:94 pushes in 2 months
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