Rui Zhao
Senior Applied Scientist, Prime Video & Studios Core Technology at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Zhao is a senior applied scientist with 11 years of experience translating research in probabilistic graphical models, Bayesian methods, and deep learning into production ML for dynamic, sequential data. Currently at Amazon working across Prime Video & Studios Core Technology and Amazon One, he applies his PhD-trained expertise to problems in action recognition, motion synthesis, facial expression analysis, HCI, and brain-computer interfaces. His background blends academic rigor—doctoral research on spatial-temporal dynamics at RPI and hands-on signal processing work at Purdue—with industry projects like wind-turbine outage prediction and ECoG-based brain modeling. Rui is comfortable moving models from theory to deployed systems, particularly where temporal structure and uncertainty matter, and he often bridges domains that mix vision, time series, and neuroscience. Based in Seattle, he brings both deep research chops and product-focused engineering to complex ML problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Computer vision, Exchange Student Computer vision at North Carolina State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Systems and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Systems and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMaster's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityBS Instrument Science, BS Instrument Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (25)
jupyter9
netlify9
r9
page-builder9
forestry9
open-science9
hugo9
hugo-theme9
rstudio9
rmarkdown9
roamresearch8
cms8
data-science7
blogdown7
blog-engine7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rort1989/skeletons
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
rort1989/BH-HSMM
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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