Andrew Chan
Senior Principal AI Engineer Software at Northrop Grumman
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Chan is a Senior Principal AI Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native ML and AI systems for large engineering organizations, currently leading an enterprise LLM service at Northrop Grumman. He designs and operationalizes end-to-end AI platforms—spanning reinforcement learning on SageMaker, MLOps with Airflow, vector databases and RAG, event streaming with Kafka, and graph analytics with Neo4j—to accelerate engineering development at scale. His background in MBSE and systems engineering lets him translate complex defense and systems requirements into actionable data science programs that have reduced thousands of architecture defects. Adept at both hands-on model development (computer vision, NLP, anomaly detection) and product leadership, he combines a PhD-level research pedigree (postdoc at CMU-CLeaR, PhD at CUHK) with pragmatic automation using Azure Functions, Docker, and SQL. Based in Los Angeles, he’s known for turning prototype innovations into funded, production-ready capabilities that serve thousands of users.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (75)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
deep-learning10
adaptation10
transformer10
nlp10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
generative-model10
speech-recognition10
graph-representation-learning10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LFhase/Recognizers-Text
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Microsoft.Recognizers.Text provides recognition and resolution of numbers, units, and date/time expressed in multiple languages (ZH, EN, FR, ES, PT, DE, IT, TR, HI. Partial support for NL, JA, KO, SV). Contributions are greatly welcome! Packages are available at https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text and https://www.npmjs.com/~recognizers.text
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 1 month
nlpdate-timepartialrecognitionrecognizers
LFhase/LFhase.github.io
May 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:106 commits, 191 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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