Denis Emelin
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Emelin is an applied scientist with nine years of experience at the intersection of NLP research and production-grade AI, currently driving LLM-powered agentic systems in Amazon’s Alexa+ organization. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a strong background in NMT, NLG and NLU, with internships at AI2, ISI, University of Zurich and AWS Lex that translated academic insights into deployed dialogue and knowledge-aware systems. His work spans LLM capability prediction, reasoning, evaluation, data synthesis, prompt optimization and fine-tuning, emphasizing measurable improvements in generative and agentic behavior. Denis combines cognitive-neuroscience-informed research (e.g., anticipatory prediction aligned with brain mechanisms) with hands-on engineering to bridge theory and scalable GenAI features. Based in London, he is equally comfortable designing experiments, teaching large cohorts, and shipping model-centric products.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Research AI Summer School 2018Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computational Linguistics / Language Science and Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computational Linguistics / Language Science and Technology at Universität des SaarlandesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Arts (B.A.) German Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) German Studies at University of Tübingen25th European Summer School in Logic, Language and InformationVisiting student in the graduate program (1 year) Linguistics, Visiting student in the graduate program (1 year) Linguistics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Russian, English, German, French
Github Skills (35)
nlg10
facebook10
ctc10
sequence-to-sequence10
sequence10
artificial-intelligence9
benchmark9
pytorch9
python9
natural-language-generation9
conformer9
transformer-architecture9
nlp9
mt9
deep-learning8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
demelin/Noise-Contrastive-Estimation-NCE-for-pyTorch
May 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
demelin/detecting_wsd_biases_for_nmt
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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