Summary
Steven Kauwe is a Data and Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer with nine years of experience applying NLP and deep learning to healthcare EHRs and materials data. He builds and deploys BERT, T5, and GPT-based solutions using AWS SageMaker and HuggingFace for tasks from NER and document classification to synthetic data generation. With a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering and five first-author publications, he brings a strong research foundation and past work in materials informatics to production ML problems. Steven pairs rigorous technical skills in Python, PySpark, LaTeX, and JavaScript with polished writing and the ability to translate results for non-technical stakeholders. He has a history of coordinating cross-functional initiatives across medical, sales, and engineering teams and a background in data science consulting and reporting. Based in Durham, NC, he combines academic depth with hands-on engineering to move models from research into real-world clinical and industrial use.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Bachelor of Science - BS Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University