Kenton Lee
Research Scientist at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenton Lee is a research scientist with 13 years of experience, currently at Google in Seattle, focused on NLP and question-answering systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a BS in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, bringing deep academic rigor to applied ML research. At Google he has contributed to high-profile open-source work from the Google AI Language team, including documentation and pipeline updates for the Natural Questions baseline. Kenton blends model implementation and evaluation expertise with careful reproducibility and tooling practices, helping bridge research prototypes and usable baselines. Colleagues would note his quiet attention to detail—improving pipelines and docs that make complex models easier for others to adopt.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of WashingtonMiddlesex SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (5)
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
question-answering10
natural-language-processing10
python9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google-research/language
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:40 commits, 27 PRs, 122 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kenton contributed to the project by updating documentation in preparation for the initial Natural Questions (NQ) baseline release. This involved modifying the `nq_short_pipeline_model.py` file, likely to reflect changes in the model or the dataset. The changes suggest involvement in the implementation and testing of models related to natural language processing and question answering within the Google AI Language team.
nlplanguage-teamlanguage-aimachine-learningnatural-language-processing
uwnlp/taggerflow
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:130 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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