Summary
Nicholas Chow is a Senior Research Engineer specializing in ML and HCI with eight years of experience building production-ready systems and research prototypes. Based in Irvine, he currently shapes AAA’s multi-horizon R&D roadmap—designing modular, interoperable reference architectures, governed sandboxes, and evaluation harnesses to de-risk emerging AI, IoT, and XR technologies. He previously engineered end-to-end ML and OCR pipelines at LeaseCalcs, boosting document auto-fill accuracy from 30% to 75% and modernizing a decade-old provisions service for high-volume reliability. As a graduate researcher he led AdaptLIL, the first ML-driven adaptive visualization system to improve user task success and deliver sub-40ms responses, work published at ISWC and IEEVis. Comfortable shipping from scratch, he blends rigorous experimentation, disciplined engineering, and product-minded prototypes that bridge research insights to production handoffs.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
Servite High School
University of California, Irvine