Sasha Sotudeh
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSasha Sotudeh is an Applied Scientist II with a PhD in Computer Science from Georgetown University and over a decade of experience building NLP, IR, and text-mining solutions. Currently on Amazon AGI’s data and content team in Los Angeles, she designs data provision and processing pipelines to power next-generation AI systems and improve model performance. Her background spans industry research roles (Comcast AI Labs, Adobe) and extensive academic mentorship—she earned an Outstanding TA award after supporting courses from Information Retrieval to Experimental AI. Sasha combines deep research expertise in text summarization and question answering with hands-on productionization skills, and she’s comfortable moving ideas from papers to at-scale systems. Less obvious: she has a track record of teaching and mentoring across two countries, blending rigorous research with practical software engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Georgetown UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University
Persian, Turkish, English
Stackoverflow
2,752reputation
784kreached
96answers
53questions
artificial-intelligence
top-5%
deep-learning
top-5%
Github Skills (148)
transformers10
language-model10
sentence10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
sequence-to-sequence10
multilingual10
conformer10
ctc10
hyperparameter-tuning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
sentence-embeddings10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Georgetown-IR-Lab/ExtendedSumm
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
sajastu/IntroGuidedExtendedSumm
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.