Peng Qi
Senior Director, AI Science at Uniphore
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPeng Qi is a Senior Director of AI Science with 12 years of experience advancing NLP, foundation models, and agentic systems, now leading AI research at Uniphore after Orby AI’s acquisition. He co-founded Amazon’s Q research team and helped launch RAG-driven conversational and enterprise search solutions at AWS, blending deep research with product-focused deployment. His PhD from Stanford under Chris Manning and prior work on multilingual syntactic tools like Stanza inform a research agenda centered on explainability, data-efficiency, and organized knowledge for complex QA and human–computer collaboration. Peng has led development of large action models and neuro-symbolic agents, and is known for driving scientific rigor inside product teams while shipping practical POCs. Based in Seattle, he maintains an active public presence through technical writing and Twitter, signaling a commitment to accessible AI communication beyond publications.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Software, BE, Computer Software at Tsinghua UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English, JapaneseGithub contributions (1)
rickyqiu/TrainingMaterials
May 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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