Peter West
Assistant Professor at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPeter West is an Assistant Professor and NLP/ML researcher with eight years of experience spanning graduate research at the University of Washington and internships at AI2 and Microsoft. He focuses on building useful, novel language systems while critically examining how research culture affects both practitioners and users. Trained with a PhD in Computer Science from UW and an honours BSc from UBC, he blends rigorous experimental practice with hands-on mentoring and teaching experience. His background ranges from computational biology and physics experiments to high-impact NLP research, revealing a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving. Based in Seattle and now faculty at UBC, he combines academic leadership with active contributions to the ML/NLP research community.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (11)
mechanism8
hierarchical8
squad6
nlp6
summarization6
question-answering6
comet4
pytorch4
tensorflow4
python3
machine-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
peterwestuw/GPT2ForwardBackward
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 3 comments in 10 months
peterwestuw/BottleSum
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 21 pushes, 3 comments in 9 months
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