Huy Nguyen
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHuy Nguyen is an applied scientist with a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon and 11 years of experience building data-driven educational technology and large-scale learning systems. He has led development and evaluation of interactive learning platforms—from a data-structures tutor to Decimal Point, a game teaching decimals—and has published at AIED, EDM, and LAK. At Amazon he now focuses on LLM architectures for Alexa, drawing on prior work improving NLU and cloud computing education for diverse learners. His research blends experimental design, data mining, and HCI to uncover how features like student agency and help-seeking shape learning and enjoyment. Known for translating academic insights into production-ready systems, he pairs rigorous evaluation with practical engineering across web, game, and AI stacks.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.9, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.9 at Lafayette College
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (4)
facebook5
messaging3
react2
javascript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
HuyLafa/codeu_project_2017
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 31 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
HuyLafa/DeepLearning
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:48 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
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