Summary
Pascal Tuan is a founder and PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara with a decade of experience applying machine learning, deep learning, and NLP to real-world problems. He has blended academic research with industry impact through multiple research and applied science internships at Meta, Amazon, and Facebook, culminating in founding Orchat to productize conversational AI. His work spans reinforcement learning and large-scale language models, informed by hands-on research roles at National Taiwan University and UCSB. Based in San Diego, he pairs rigorous research training with startup pragmatism, often translating novel algorithms into deployable systems. An early pattern in his career is moving quickly from ideas to production-ready artifacts, reflecting both experimental breadth and execution focus.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara