Hung-tu Chen
Research Scientist at SIMONS FOUNDATION INC
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHung-tu Chen is a Research Scientist at Meta with 11 years of experience focused on applying large language models to recommendation systems, blending NeuroAI insights from his PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth with practical ML productization. Based in Bellevue, he brings interdisciplinary rigor—grounding algorithmic design in cognitive and neural principles—to improve personalization and user modeling. Trained originally in economics at National Tsing Hua University, he combines quantitative thinking with human-centered research to tackle complex recommendation challenges. Known in NeuroAI circles, he bridges academic research and industry-scale engineering to translate behavioral theories into scalable LLM-driven solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth CollegeBachelor, Economics, Bachelor, Economics at National Tsing Hua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (133)
python10
ui-components10
relay-modern10
material-ui10
relay10
react-components10
javascript10
react-applications10
typescript10
server-side-rendering10
material-design10
react10
async9
twitter9
data-driven9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hungtuchen/ml-playground
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
g0v/ppt
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:134 commits, 46 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 months
promise-trackerpoliticaltracker
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