Chen Qiao
Senior Deep Learning Engineer at Illumina
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolChen Qiao is a Senior Deep Learning Engineer based in Hong Kong Island with 11 years of experience building NLP and ML systems spanning research and production. With a PhD from the University of Hong Kong and a postdoc at its School of Biomedical Sciences, Chen has transitioned latent-variable and text-classification research into practical products such as NLU for in-vehicle voice control and MOOC analytics. Currently at Illumina, Chen applies deep learning to real-world data while drawing on prior work improving extractive summarization algorithms and reinforcement learning approaches from an industry research internship. A former journalist intern and software engineer, Chen blends rigorous technical depth with clear writing and an eye for human-centered insights. Beyond code, Chen writes about life and nature, reflecting a curious, interdisciplinary perspective that informs both research questions and engineering trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Russian Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Russian Language and Literature at East China Normal UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
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Github Skills (42)
projection10
raw-data9
conceptnet9
velocity9
variational-autoencoder8
semantics8
hierarchical7
spatial-transcriptomics7
tsne7
transcriptomics6
deep-learning6
pymc6
single-cell-analysis6
autoencoder6
lda6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
StatBiomed/BBMix
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 6 months
qiaochen/LLM_RAG_papers
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:473 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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