Sarik Ghazarian
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Glendale, California, United States
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Top SchoolSarik Ghazarian is an applied scientist and NLP researcher with eight years of industry and academic experience, currently working on open-domain generation and automatic evaluation metrics at AWS. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from USC and has held research roles at Amazon and UCLA, blending deep research rigor with production-oriented applied science. Sarik focuses on creating evaluation methods that better capture the open-ended, human-like qualities of generative models, believing that smarter metrics can directly improve model training and outcomes. His background spans practical software engineering—building recommender systems and healthcare applications—to advanced NLP research, giving him a rare ability to move ideas from prototype to production. Based in Glendale, CA, he brings a consistent track record of interdisciplinary work and a fascination for measurement problems that are often overlooked in generation research.
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 Southern CaliforniaMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Isfahan
English, Armenian, Persian
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Github Skills (38)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq9
flax9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PlusLabNLP/Dialogue_System_Hackathon
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 18 pushes in 11 months
PlusLabNLP/Plot-guided-Coherence-Evaluation
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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