Tong Niu
Staff Research Engineer at Archer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolTong Niu is a Staff Research Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in natural language processing, currently based in Sunnyvale and recently advancing from senior research roles at Salesforce and Meta to Archer. With a steady track record at Salesforce—rising from intern to senior scientist—he has driven NLP research that resulted in submissions to top-tier conferences and applied research in industry settings. His academic foundation includes graduate work at Duke and research at UNC Chapel Hill under Mohit Bansal, blending rigorous theory with practical model development. Known for bridging deep research and product-focused engineering, he often moves projects from prototype to deployable systems. An understated strength is his ability to navigate both corporate research labs and fast-moving engineering teams, enabling impact across publication and production.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. graduated as M.S., Computer Science, Ph.D. graduated as M.S., Computer Science at Duke UniversityB.A., Mathematics and Computer Science double major, Physics minor, B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science double major, Physics minor at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (44)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
tensorflow10
deep-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
decoder8
encoder-decoder8
youtube8
notebook8
jupyter8
encoder7
google7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
WolfNiu/vocab_book
Jul 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:266 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
WolfNiu/polite-dialogue-generation
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes in 3 months
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