Wanyu Du
Applied Scientist II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWanyu Du is an applied scientist at Amazon Web Services focused on trustworthy large language models, bringing eight years of research and engineering experience to production ML problems. She completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Virginia in 2024, where her research emphasized controllable, efficient, and interactive text generation. Her internships at AWS, Grammarly, and Tencent translated academic ideas into practical systems—ranging from parameter-efficient fine-tuning and data augmentation for LLMs to user edit-intention modeling and dialogue evaluation. Based in Seattle, she combines deep research rigor with hands-on deployment experience, making her adept at bridging prototype algorithms and scalable services. An understated strength is her track record of improving model interactivity and controllability, which informs her current work on trustworthy LLM behaviors.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Dongbei University of Finance and EconomicsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Chinese, English
Github Skills (42)
bart10
iterative9
text-editing9
roberta8
style-transfer8
variational-autoencoder8
sentence-transformers7
encoder7
encoder-decoder7
text-style7
acl7
natural-language-processing7
decoder7
gaussian7
nlp7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wyu-du/Self-Training-Dialogue-Generation
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
wyu-du/DeepLearning-NLP
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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