Summary
Chunyuan Deng is an incoming CS PhD student at Rice University with six years of industry and research experience across NLP and systems engineering. He completed an MS at Georgia Tech while serving as a part-time research fellow with the Yale NLP Group and has interned with Amazon Science’s Pretraining Team, NetEase, SAP, and OPPO, blending large-scale model research with practical backend and API development. His work spans pretraining research, algorithmic NLP, and production-ready services—evidenced by contributions such as raising test coverage and building cross-platform features in enterprise settings. Trained in data science at ECNU and experienced as a visiting student at the University of Washington, he combines strong academic rigor with hands-on engineering and a calm, collaborative approach to research and product problems. He maintains a personal website and a relaxed GitHub presence—"Stay peaceful :)"—reflecting a thoughtful balance of curiosity and steady execution.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting student, Computer Science, Visiting student, Computer Science at University of Washington
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Data Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Data Science at East China Normal University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Rice University
High School Diploma, Science, High School Diploma, Science at 江西师范大学附属中学(江西师大附中)
Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, English