Mingyu Derek
Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Agents & Foundation Models
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingyu Derek is a Principal ML Scientist and Tech Lead specializing in agentic AI platforms for pharmaceutical R&D, currently leading Agenecy at Genentech/Roche to turn distributed scientific know-how into reusable tools, skills, and agents used in production by hundreds of scientists. With nine years of experience and PhD-level training in computer science, he designs the primitive layer that connects frontier LLMs to internal knowledge systems, lab instruments, and regulated workflows so AI outputs become actionable in live drug projects. He focuses on the hard integration work—embedding AI into team-science processes rather than building one-off assistants—and has full technical ownership of platform roadmap, architecture, and deployment at pharma scale. Notably, his platform drives exponential, word-of-mouth adoption across research organizations by enabling scientists to contribute and compose tools that compound across portfolios.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Computing, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityExchange Study, Exchange Study at University of MarylandUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (77)
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computer-science9
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react9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PlusLabNLP/EventPlus
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
[NAACL'21 Demo] EventPlus: a temporal event understanding pipeline that integrates various state-of-the-art event understanding components including event trigger and type detection, event argument detection, event duration and temporal relation extraction
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year
event-detectionextractionstate-of-the-artnaaclunderstanding
derekmma/surakarta-game
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 52 commits, 1 push in 2 months
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