Jason Chou
Independent Researcher at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Chou is an independent researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems and contributing to open-source AI tooling. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics and a Summa Cum Laude B.S.E. in Computer Science, and has shipped applied ML features at Airbnb (fraud prediction, CLIP/OPT-based entity extraction and photo-embedding pipelines) after earlier roles at Google and startups. His recent research outputs include a first-authored ECCV 2024 workshop paper on CLIP geometry and a solo ICLR 2024 blog post on masked language modeling with ALiBi and a CLAP head, bridging academic insight with production practice. Comfortable across Python, TensorFlow, and ML data platforms, he has a track record of turning research ideas into deployable pipelines and contributing to projects like open_clip and torchvision. Colocated in Seattle, he blends rigorous scientific training with hands-on engineering, often surfacing subtle geometric and architectural insights that improve real-world model behavior.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Physics at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolB.S.E. Summa Cum Laude Computer Science, B.S.E. Summa Cum Laude Computer Science at University of Michigan
Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (66)
python10
attention-mechanism10
deep-learning10
gpu10
zero-shot-classification10
multimodal10
computer-vision10
visual-question-answering10
tensorflow10
clip10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
encoder9
numpy9
acceleration9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EIFY/mup-vit
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Everything you need to reproduce "Better plain ViT baselines for ImageNet-1k" in PyTorch, and more
Contributions:8 PRs, 105 pushes, 28 branches in 10 months
EIFY/open_clip
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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