David Chan
Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Berkeley
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Chan is a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley with 11 years of experience at the intersection of multi-modal representation learning, human-centered foundation models, and assistive AI. He completed a PhD and MS at Berkeley and has combined academic rigor with industry impact through roles at Amazon Lab126, Google AI, Dropbox, and NASA JPL, where he productionized ML systems and developed reinforcement learning and conversational AI solutions. His background spans algorithm design, distributed low-dimensional embeddings, and building practical RL agents for real-world and space applications, plus teaching and curriculum development in CS. Based in Oakland, he blends deep research expertise with hands-on engineering fluency, often translating novel models into scalable, user-facing systems. An under-the-radar thread across his career is a sustained focus on human-centric AI — designing models and interfaces that assist people in real contexts.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Assistive Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Assistive Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS) Summa Cum Laude Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Summa Cum Laude Computer Science Mathematics at University of Denver
English, French, Italian
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Github Skills (200)
similarity-search10
parallel10
python10
image-processing10
multithreading10
nearest-neighbors10
forge10
deep-learning10
mnist10
sequence-to-sequence10
ray10
clustering10
optimization10
tflearn10
ml10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CannyLab/rinokeras
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Tensorflow + Keras Algorithms repository for the CannyLab
Contributions:4 releases, 251 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
deep-learningkerastensorflowkeras-tensorflow
DavidMChan/mysfire
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 51 pushes, 9 tags in 8 months
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