Vu Ha
Technical Director at AI2 Incubator
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolVu Ha is a technical director and seasoned AI engineer with 11+ years building and advising early-stage startups and research-driven products from the Greater Seattle Area. He co-founded and served as lead architect of Semantic Scholar, pioneering large-scale machine reading, citation graph analysis, and relevance ranking across tens of millions of papers. Before that he led core research and engineering at AI2 and Microsoft, delivering production-scale NLP, knowledge-graph, and low-latency concept-mapping systems that improved search recall and audience targeting. Today he advises founders at AI2 Incubator, helping teams decide what to build and rapidly turn AI research into product-market fit. His background spans formal verification, deep learning on petabyte click graphs, and distributed indexing—an uncommon blend of rigorous verification, academic-grade NLP, and practical production engineering. He also maintains ties to the research community as Semantic Scholar’s first engineer and an advocate for thoughtful, transparent data practices.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D. Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd UniversityB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Debreceni Egyetem
Hungarian, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (108)
dialog10
crf10
sms-gateway10
transactional-emails10
transition10
email-marketing9
nlp9
fastai9
arabic-nlp9
python9
fairness-ml9
gpu9
deep-learning9
cython9
debug9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vha14/pycharm-settings
Apr 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:496 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
allenai/alexafsm
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
With alexafsm, developers can model dialog agents with first-class concepts such as states, attributes, transition, and actions. alexafsm also provides visualization and other tools to help understand, test, debug, and maintain complex FSM conversations.
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
dialogfsmagentsconversationstransition
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