Clara Vania
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolClara Vania is an Applied Scientist on Amazon’s AGI team in Cambridge with 11 years of experience bridging academic NLP research and production machine learning. She holds a PhD in Data Science/NLP from Edinburgh and brings postdoctoral and industry research experience from NYU and Facebook AI into applied product work. Her background spans character-level morphology modeling, speech synthesis, and applied ML for conversational systems—skills honed through prior Alexa internships and academic roles teaching algorithms and systems. Fluent in both rigorous research and production constraints, she excels at turning linguistic insight into scalable ML solutions. A detail that sets her apart: she combines cum laude degrees from Universitas Indonesia with a UK PhD, reflecting a long-standing commitment to both pedagogy and cutting-edge research.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Cum Laude, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Cum Laude at Universitas IndonesiaMaster of Science (MSc), Data Science, with Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Data Science, with Distinction at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (25)
representations10
transfer-learning10
nlp9
classification8
lstm8
transformers8
bert7
natural-language-processing7
machine-learning6
pytorch6
deep-learning5
lda4
language-model3
relation-extraction3
char2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
claravania/lstm-pytorch
Nov 2017 - Jan 2019
LSTM Classification using Pytorch
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
pytorchdeep-learninglstmmachine-learningclassification
claravania/subword-lstm-lm
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
LSTM Language Model with Subword Units Input Representations
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 7 months
pytorchnlplanguage-modelrepresentationslstm
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