Wei-rui Chen
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWei-rui Chen is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at UBC specializing in NLP, with a research focus on evaluating multilingual, visual, and multimodal capabilities of large language models. He combines nine years of ML experience and over a decade of Python expertise with hands-on production engineering—having designed and deployed end-to-end ML systems for Trend Micro and taught practical NLP engineering using PyTorch and Hugging Face. His research work targets improving machine translation and language identification through transfer learning and LLMs, while industry internships at RBC Borealis and LinkedIn CoreAI reflect strong applied-research credibility. An Outstanding TA award signals both technical depth and clear teaching communication, and he’s actively seeking research scientist internships to bridge rigorous research with scalable deployment.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of British Columbia
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
pytorch10
nlp10
python10
natural-language-processing10
bert9
tensorflow9
machine-learning9
speech-recognition9
deep-learning9
transformers9
language-model9
transformer9
jax8
seq2seq7
flax7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
UBC-NLP/IndT5
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:17 commits in 1 day
acsets/Bitcoin_ML_pyspark
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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