Brent Woo
Language Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Woo is a language engineer with 13 years’ experience blending linguistic scholarship and applied NLP, currently building conversational AI on Amazon’s Alexa team in Seattle. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington and a track record spanning research-oriented roles, editorial and IT work for LINGUIST List, and an LSA internship—bringing rare depth in both theoretical linguistics and production voice systems. Brent focuses on making voice interfaces feel natural while keeping teams engaged with academic research and scientific discourse. Fluent in Russian through multiple fellowships and certificates, he often bridges cross-cultural language insights with engineering solutions. Despite not monitoring LinkedIn frequently, he contributes to Alexa’s mission to give conversational AI a convincing human voice.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linguistics at University of WashingtonCSU Strategic Language and Culture Certificate (SLCC), Russian, CSU Strategic Language and Culture Certificate (SLCC), Russian at California State University-Long BeachMaster of Arts (MA), Linguistics, Master of Arts (MA), Linguistics at Eastern Michigan UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Russian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Russian Studies at University of California, Los AngelesStrategic Language Initiative fellowship, Russian Language, Strategic Language Initiative fellowship, Russian Language at Российский Государственный Гуманитарный Университет
English, Russian, FinnishGithub contributions (5)
brentwoo/brentwoo.github.io
Aug 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:334 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
brentwoo/xfst
Jun 2013 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
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