Hyunji Park
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHyunji Park is an Applied Scientist with eight years of experience specializing in NLP and generative AI, currently contributing at the AWS GenAI Innovation Center in Seattle. She has progressed through multiple applied science and language engineering roles at Amazon/AWS, focusing on production-ready language models and efficient long-document classification with Transformers. Hyunji holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics and an MS in Statistics from UIUC, pairing deep linguistic expertise with rigorous quantitative skills. Her background in translation and TESL (Korean-English) gives her a practical edge in multilingual model design and evaluation. She blends academic research—evidenced by JSALT participation—with hands-on product work, moving models from prototyping to scalable deployment. Outside core engineering, she maintains a public portfolio showcasing her research and projects at hayleypark.github.io.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Interpretation and Translation (Korean-English), Master of Arts - MA Interpretation and Translation (Korean-English) at Hankuk University of Foreign StudiesBachelor of Arts - BA British and American Language and Literature; Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA British and American Language and Literature; Philosophy at Sogang UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
acl10
javascript10
computational-linguistics10
documentation10
phonetics9
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
neural-polysynthetic-language-modelling/baseline_rnn
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
hayleypark/hayleypark.github.io
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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