Cheng Chen
Senior Applied Scientist at Dialpad
British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Chen is a Senior Applied Scientist based in British Columbia with five years of industry experience specializing in natural language processing and large-scale data management. At Dialpad he engineers NLP and NLU solutions, building production-ready models and pipelines from research to deployment. Previously he led small agile teams at Synopsys/Black Duck managing an OSS knowledge base with millions of projects and terabytes of metadata, tackling entity resolution, deduplication, and feature engineering on Hadoop/Spark. His background combines rigorous academic research (PhD/MS work on distributed graph algorithms and published top-tier papers) with hands-on system delivery—deploying Oozie workflows, RESTful services, and scalable data pipelines. Notably, he has translated research prototypes into customer-facing products and supervised academic collaborations that resulted in publications, reflecting an ability to bridge theory and production impact.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Victoria
English, chineses / mandarin
Github Skills (20)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
adapter10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cchen-dialpad/transformers
Mar 2021 - Feb 2024
🤗Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for Pytorch and TensorFlow 2.0.
Contributions:8 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
pytorchnlptransformersartbert
talkiq/llm-evaluate
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 day
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