Tao Shen
Principal Applied Scientist at Oracle
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTao Shen is a Principal Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience bridging deep learning research and real-world product development across Microsoft, Oracle, and academia. Currently based in Sydney and completing a Ph.D. at the University of Technology Sydney, he focuses on NLP and deep learning, bringing a research-driven mindset to production-scale problems. His career blends industry internships and applied roles—ranging from big data work at Didi to consecutive research and applied scientist positions at Microsoft—demonstrating an ability to move ideas from prototype to deployed systems. Tao’s background in electrical and communications engineering underpins a practical approach to model engineering and data-driven optimization. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering, often uncovering simpler algorithmic fixes that yield outsized performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, GPA: 3.67/4.00;, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, GPA: 3.67/4.00; at Chongqing University of Post and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Technology Sydney
English, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
taoshen58/DiSAN
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 11 pushes, 25 comments in 5 months
taoshen58/BiBloSA
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 13 comments in 3 months
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