Wei Liu
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Liu is a Senior Applied Scientist in London with 14 years of experience applying NLP and machine learning to large-scale text problems across industry leaders including Amazon, Microsoft (SwiftKey), Yahoo and Tencent. He specializes in text classification, information retrieval/extraction, language modelling and scalable data pipelines (Hadoop/Spark), with a rare blend of research rigor from his Sheffield work on minimal perfect hash language models and hands-on production ML. At ComplyAdvantage and QBE he led applied ML efforts, and at SwiftKey he optimized N-gram and RNN language models for complex languages like Chinese and Japanese. An outspoken practitioner who still enjoys debating Attention vs CNN, he codes fluently in Java and Python and focuses on practical, deployable NLP solutions that balance accuracy and efficiency.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Systems Technology, Distiction, MSc, Software Systems Technology, Distiction at The University of SheffieldBSc, Applied Computing, BSc, Applied Computing at Shenzhen University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (31)
experiment8
version-control8
crf8
bilstm8
face8
trains8
machine-learning6
msr6
devops5
k8s5
nlp5
experiment-manager5
aws5
deep-learning5
clearml5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
newwaylw/MPHR
Mar 2012 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
newwaylw/facelock
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
lock your computer screen (or any other commands) when face is not detected
Contributions:27 commits, 18 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 10 months
facelock
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