Sean Yang
Summary
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SeniorSean Yang is a Senior Research Scientist with nine years of experience applying large-scale ML and NLP to real-world products, now driving research at NVIDIA after recent work on email classification and LLM-powered annotation systems at Yahoo Research. He combines a strong academic pedigree (PhD-level research at University of Washington) with hands-on engineering—building production pipelines on AWS, deploying spaCy models, and developing visualization systems that served millions of papers. Sean specializes in leveraging LLMs for synthetic data generation and human-in-the-loop workflows to improve model performance and annotation efficiency, once matching a large supervised baseline with only 75 labeled tables. Comfortable spanning research and product teams, he has a track record of shipping scalable systems (Viziometrics, knowledge extraction pipelines) that measurably improved user engagement. Based in the Denver area, he brings a curious experimental mindset rooted in both deep learning publications and pragmatic engineering.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
autoencoder6
clustering4
pytorch2
nearest-neighbor-search1
knowledge-graph1
wikidata1
gpu1
entity-linking1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
viziometrics/centraul_figure
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
viziometrics/feature-extraction
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:13 pushes in 4 months
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