Jiefeng Chen is a Senior Research Scientist at Google with eight years of experience building and researching foundation models, especially around LLMs, agentic systems, and responsible AI. He holds a PhD from UW–Madison and has a track record of publishing papers from internships at top labs (NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, TMLR) earned during multiple Google and DeepMind collaborations. His industry roles span Amazon AGI and AWS AI Labs where he focused on deploying foundation models responsibly, and his work often blends theoretical rigor with practical test-time scaling and agent design. Based in Sunnyvale, he emphasizes the “philosophy” of programming—reflecting a thoughtful, principle-driven approach to research and engineering that guides both model design and deployment.
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