Jia Geng
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolJia Geng is a Senior Applied Scientist based in the Greater Seattle Area with eight years of hands-on experience applying ML and deep learning to real-world problems. At Amazon she progressed from intern to senior scientist building explainable sequential models for fraud prevention and now works on foundational models for customer behavior. Her background uniquely blends a PhD in Marine Ecosystems with applied computer vision and automation—ranging from automated rotifer culture imaging to underwater fish recognition—showing strengths in vision, Python, and PyTorch. She has a strong track record of operationalizing research into production ML systems that reduce buyer risk and scale across large datasets. Jia’s cross-disciplinary training and experience in both academic research and enterprise ML enable her to bridge novel modeling techniques with product-focused deployment. Colleagues often note her ability to translate complex scientific problems into interpretable, production-ready models.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Data Science Foundations, Graduate Certificate Data Science Foundations at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Ocean University of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Marine Ecosystems and Society, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Marine Ecosystems and Society at University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
11reputation
309reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (18)
python8
background-subtraction7
subtraction7
computer-vision6
jupyter-notebook6
neural-network6
deep-learning6
glad6
geopy6
image-recognition6
github6
coordinates6
glfw6
moving-object-detection5
matlab4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gengjia0214/AIRoti
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:106 commits, 8 pushes in 2 months
gengjia0214/jai
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 release, 119 commits, 107 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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