Mingkai Deng
PHD Student at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMingkai Deng is a PhD student in Natural Language Processing at Carnegie Mellon University with nine years of industry and research experience bridging data science and machine learning. Based in Pittsburgh, he conducts research in the Language Technologies Institute and as a research assistant in Prof. Eric Xing’s CASL lab, bringing applied experience from roles at Baidu Research, Weber Shandwick, and quantitative internships on Wall Street. He combines a strong theoretical background—MS in Machine Learning from CMU and a double major in Mathematics-Statistics and Computer Science from Columbia—with practical analytics work across startups and enterprise teams. Known for translating complex models into business-facing insights, he has contributed to business intelligence and global intelligence projects that required both rigorous research and operational delivery. An early research intern at MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics, he blends curiosity about foundational problems with a pragmatic focus on scalable, composable learning systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Shenzhen Middle SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree Mathematics-Statistics and Computer Science (Double Major), Bachelor's Degree Mathematics-Statistics and Computer Science (Double Major) at Columbia University
Github Skills (47)
artificial-intelligence10
chatgpt10
stylegan10
prompt-tuning10
llm10
information-theory10
agent10
dialogue-systems10
openai10
few-shot-learning10
language-modeling10
prompting10
gpt10
developer-tools10
cli10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mingkaid/2014-summer-simulated-quantum-annealing
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
mingkaid/2016-summer-jordan-coral-reef-regression
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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