Chen Luo
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Luo is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon with 12 years of industry and research experience, specializing in search query understanding, product search, query parsing/classification, and knowledge graphs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University and combines rigorous academic training with practical product impact across Amazon Search, where he advanced query rewriting, language pre-training, and behavior analysis. His background includes research internships at Microsoft Research Asia and NEC Labs focused on time series, log mining, transfer learning and graph mining, which inform his data-driven approach to search relevance and ranking. Based in Palo Alto, he blends engineering and research instincts—equally comfortable prototyping models and shipping scalable systems—and has a track record of moving techniques from lab to production. Colleagues describe him as an engineer-researcher who surfaces nuanced behavioral signals to improve retrieval quality beyond standard supervised signals.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Rice UniversityBachelor of Science and Master of Engineer, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineer, Computer Science at Jilin University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
generalization4
robustness3
imagenet2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rackingroll/mcmc_lsh
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
rackingroll/tinet
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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