Eric Chu
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolEric Chu is a Staff Research Scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of machine learning and applied research experience spanning Google DeepMind, X (The Moonshot Factory), Facebook/Meta, and Google Brain. He has been a core contributor to Gemini agents and RL systems and co-led coding, RLHF, and safety efforts for Bard and PaLM 2, including the Google I/O coding launch. His PhD work at MIT (Media Lab & CSAIL) and early internships produced the first end-to-end multi-document abstractive summarization model (ICML) and research on memory-augmented dialogue generation. Eric blends deep research rigor with product-focused deployment, repeatedly moving models from papers to large-scale human-AI systems and launch-ready features. Notably, he has led cross-office experiments on human-AI workflows and uncertainty presentation, showing a practical focus on human-centered ML beyond core model development.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning: Media Lab & CSAIL, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning: Media Lab & CSAIL at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyVisiting Student, Mathematics and Computer Science, Visiting Student, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Oxford
Github Skills (32)
pytorch9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
transformer8
python8
deep-learning8
sentiment8
bert8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
benchmark8
transformers7
sentiment-analysis7
audio7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sosuperic/a-darn-good-yarn
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Audio-visual sentiment analysis for learning emotional arcs in movies
Contributions:153 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
nlpmoviesmachine-learningsentimentaudio
sosuperic/MeanSum
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 months
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