Dinghan Shen is a Staff Research Scientist and startup founder with eight years of experience building production-grade conversational AI and LLM-powered products for enterprises. He led ML efforts at Cresta to launch an LLM-driven auto-summarization product adopted by Fortune 500 customers, and earlier contributed to Microsoft’s Power Virtual Agent and synthetic data research. A Duke PhD in ML/NLP with 25+ top-tier publications, he blends deep research rigor with product-focused engineering and has interned at Google on large-scale synthetic data to reduce hallucination. Based in the Bay Area, he recently co-founded Trove AI to boost B2B sales productivity and now drives research at Zoom, demonstrating a rare mix of academic pedigree, startup grit, and enterprise impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Middle & High school, Middle & High school at Chongqing Nankai Secondary School
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning at Duke University
Bachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Peking University
The source code for the Cutoff data augmentation approach proposed in this paper: "A Simple but Tough-to-Beat Data Augmentation Approach for Natural Language Understanding and Generation".
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