Rui La
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui La is an Applied Scientist with a Ph.D. from UC San Diego and a decade of experience applying ML and AI to large-scale product and manufacturing problems. At Amazon he built and deployed LLM-based embedding and agent models that power personalized recommendation widgets projected to drive over $150M in annual sales and previously delivered $34M in incremental revenue with embedding-based retrieval systems. Earlier roles at Glidewell Dental focused on IoT-driven anomaly detection, instance segmentation for dental images, and end-to-end AWS model deployments, reflecting strong MLOps and cloud engineering skills. Comfortable with Python, SQL and AWS, he bridges deep research training and product-focused engineering to move models from prototype to production. Based in Irvine, CA, Rui combines semiconductor/materials research roots with practical ML at scale—a background that helps him tackle problems spanning sensor data, computer vision, and language.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster's Degree Materials Engineering, Master's Degree Materials Engineering at University of Florida
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
tensorflowjs9
face-landmarks8
face8
emotion-recognition7
javascript-api7
face-recognition7
nodejs7
face-detection7
api7
js6
javascript6
tensorflow5
browser5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
larui529/LeetCode
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
larui529/docker-for-tensorflow-object-detection-api-EC2
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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