Anjali Narayan-chen
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnjali Narayan-chen is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon with eight years of experience focused on natural language processing and dialogue systems, currently finishing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UCLA/University of Illinois. She has driven research-to-production efforts at Amazon (including Alexa AI) and built interactive language-enabled environments for DARPA’s Communicating with Computers project, combining language understanding, generation, and planning. Her background spans industry internships at Lab126 and Roku and competitive AI research dating back to an Angry Birds AI competition placement, showing a blend of practical product work and rigorous empirical evaluation. Skilled at bridging research and engineering, she has implemented modified game clients (Project Malmo/Minecraft) for dialogue data collection and productionized NLU components for voice services. Based in Los Angeles, she brings deep expertise in conversational AI and a track record of turning complex language research into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, Computer Science, B.S., Computer Engineering, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Phillips Academy
Github Skills (22)
nlp8
python8
natural-language-processing8
phonetics8
computational-linguistics8
acl8
pytorch7
deep-learning7
bert6
machine-learning6
data-science6
music-composition5
transformers5
summarization4
pointer4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
YufeiTian/website
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
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Contributions:103 pushes in 4 years
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PlusLabNLP/Sonnet-Gen
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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