Kevin Duh
Associate Research Professor
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Duh is an Associate Research Professor and long-standing NLP/ML researcher based in Baltimore with over a decade of experience advancing language technologies at Johns Hopkins and previously in academia and industry in Japan and the US. His work spans machine translation, language modeling, semi-supervised learning for ranking, and applied NLP for low-resource languages, grounded in a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. At JHU he combines research and education roles while maintaining hands-on R&D at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. His career includes early industrial R&D at NTT and internships at Microsoft Research and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, giving him a mix of academic rigor and production-minded engineering. He is known for bridging theoretical ideas and practical systems, often tackling resource-scarce language problems that require creative modeling and evaluation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at University of WashingtonB.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University
Github Skills (45)
attention-mechanism10
attention-model10
encoder-decoder10
neural-machine-translation9
translation9
sequence-to-sequence9
nlp8
transformer-architecture8
sequence8
machine-translation8
dynet7
pytorch7
san7
machine-learning7
transformer6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kevinduh/sockeye-recipes2
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
kevinduh/sockeye
Jan 2018 - May 2022
Sequence-to-sequence framework with a focus on Neural Machine Translation based on Apache MXNet
Contributions:11 pushes in 4 years 4 months
sequencemxnetmachine-translationtranslationapache
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