Chuan Lei is a Sr. Principal Applied Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building generative AI services and data systems at scale. He has driven production ML and GenAI features across AWS (notably text-to-SQL agents for Redshift and Amazon Q integrations in Glue and Bedrock) and has deep expertise in natural language interfaces to knowledge bases from prior research roles at IBM and NEC Labs. His work spans graph neural networks, product and knowledge graphs for search and personalization, and real-time analytics pipelines, reflecting a rare blend of research rigor (PhD-level) and product-focused engineering. Known for translating complex data and ontology problems into deployable services, he repeatedly delivers systems that make data access conversational and operational at enterprise scale.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Metro State University
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Science and Technology Beijing
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