Vrindavan Harrison
Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVrindavan Harrison (Davan) is a PhD-trained NLP researcher and engineer with 11 years of applied experience building and evaluating dialogue systems and controllable natural language generation. He recently defended a dissertation at UC Santa Cruz on over-generate-and-rank methods to jointly control stylistic variation and semantic accuracy, producing practical artifacts like a LoRA-adapted Llama-3.2-3B slot-error evaluator and a prompt-based stylistic control framework for GPT-4o/Llama-2. He led Team Athena in four Alexa Prize challenges, shipping a production socialbot that handled hundreds of concurrent Alexa users and validated a transformer response ranker via live A/B tests. His work bridges research and production—16+ peer-reviewed papers, internships at Amazon Alexa AI and Microsoft, and deployable models for multilingual transliteration and retrieval-augmented LM adaptation. Based in the SF Bay Area, he’s seeking applied scientist or research roles focused on LLM evaluation, controllable gen, dialogue, or AI alignment.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (2)
dialog1
evaluation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Vrindiesel/e2e-metrics
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
E2E NLG Challenge Evaluation metrics
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
evaluation-metricsnlgevaluationrecalle2e
Vrindiesel/cs112_asg1
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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