Etsuko Ishii
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEtsuko Ishii is an applied scientist at Amazon Web Services in New York with eight years of experience bridging academic research and industry in NLP and AI agents. She completed a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST after a strong applied mathematics foundation from the University of Tokyo and research stints at Rice and Freie Universität Berlin. Her background includes multiple AWS research internships and visiting roles at Kyoto University and IBM, demonstrating a pattern of translating cutting-edge research into cloud-scale applications. Comfortable across research and production settings, she focuses on practical language-understanding systems and agent orchestration. Colleagues describe her as research-driven yet product-minded, often surfacing novel evaluation strategies that improve real-world agent behavior.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoComputer Science, Computer Science at Rice UniversityFreie Universität BerlinHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Japanese, English, German
Github Skills (11)
nlp6
transfer-learning6
prompt-tuning6
natural-language-processing6
python5
machine-learning5
prompt-toolkit4
prompt-engineering3
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
neural-network1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
etttttte/mayfest2018
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:77 commits, 5 pushes in 6 months
etsukokuste/etsukokuste.github.io
Jun 2021 - Nov 2023
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:33 pushes in 2 years 4 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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