Tyler Payne
Senior Research Software Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Payne is a Senior Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying NLP and computer vision research to conversational AI and augmented reality products, currently on the Microsoft Research AI Frontiers team. He has led R&D efforts at Walt Disney Imagineering to power interactive AI characters and optimize theme-park attraction design, and previously built MLOps, sensor fusion, and gesture recognition systems for AR at kinoo. His background includes training transformer models for semantic parsing and converting dependency trees into knowledge graphs, plus hands-on product work like an eye-typing keyboard and a social news iOS app he founded. Tyler combines deep research fluency with production-grade engineering—bridging prototype research and scalable deployment—and holds CS, Math, and Philosophy training from NYU with additional data science credentialing from MITx.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MITx Mircomasters in Statistics Data Science, MITx Mircomasters in Statistics Data Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Math, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Math, Philosophy at New York UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at International School of Beijing
English, Chinese
Github Skills (61)
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
jax10
meter9
neural-network9
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
discord8
expressions7
console7
tqdm7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tylerpayne/experiments
Apr 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
tylerpayne/unityfractal
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 21 days
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