Simeng Sun
Research Scientist at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorSimeng Sun is a research scientist based in California with a decade of experience at the intersection of multilingual natural language processing and large-scale language modeling. After a PhD-era research trajectory at UMass Amherst, Simeng has held internships and research roles at Adobe, Facebook AI/Meta (NLLB), Microsoft, and ETS, and joined NVIDIA as a research scientist in 2024. Their work spans multilingual machine translation, native language identification, and generation-focused language modeling, reflecting both academic rigor and industry impact. Colleagues describe Simeng as someone who moves fluidly between foundational research and applied system-building, often bringing insights from low-resource language work to production-scale models.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (35)
machine-learning5
python5
scikit4
natural-language-processing4
scikit-learn4
phonetics4
thai4
deep-learning3
wordnet3
nlp3
bleu3
summarization3
translation3
acl3
normalization3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SimengSun/KB_representation
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
SimengSun/revisit-nplm
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
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