Leon Chen
Research Assistant (PhD Student) at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Chen is a CS PhD student and research assistant at Stanford with seven years of hands-on experience bridging academic research and industry ML engineering. He has driven machine learning and multimodal data projects across top labs—including internships and research roles at Meta Superintelligence Labs, Johns Hopkins, A*STAR, TikTok, and NTU—where he focused on scaling data and applied ML systems. Comfortable in both research and production settings, Leon combines rigorous academic training with product-minded engineering from roles in data analytics and project management. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a global perspective from education and collaborations across Singapore and the U.S., and is actively contributing to the evolving landscape of multimodal ML at the intersection of research and deployment.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Engineering & Media, Bachelor's Degree, Information Engineering & Media at Nanyang Technological University SingaporeExchange Semester, Computer Science, Biological Science, Communications And New Media, Exchange Semester, Computer Science, Biological Science, Communications And New Media at National University of SingaporeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (128)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
foundation-models10
video-understanding10
ava10
image-matching10
ai10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cliangyu/CSVAL
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:40 commits, 19 pushes, 1 comment in 11 months
cliangyu/random_hacks
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Random hacks that I need to keep happy
Contributions:33 commits, 5 PRs, 42 pushes in 10 months
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