Summary
Fanjie Kong is an Applied Scientist with 8 years of experience bridging computer engineering research and product-focused machine learning at Amazon and AWS, currently working on auto-dubbing for Prime Video in Seattle. With a PhD from Duke, Fanjie specializes in computationally efficient and interpretable vision models, applying Multiple-Instance Learning and leveraging vision-language foundation models for open-world object detection. Their work blends state-of-the-art architectures like Vision Transformer and CLIP with rigorous attribution methods (Integrated Gradients, SHAP, DeepLIFT, LIME) and novel evaluation schemes, demonstrating a rare mix of model performance, interpretability, and causal evaluation. Comfortable moving ideas from research to production through internships and applied roles, Fanjie brings deep academic training and practical experience in multimodal systems to multimedia and video AI problems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Duke University
Bachelor's Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Northeastern University (CN)