Yada Pruksachatkun
Research Salesforce Research
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYada Pruksachatkun is a research-focused machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping NLP and conversational AI systems across industry and academia. Currently at Salesforce Research after advising startups and governments at South Park Commons, she blends hands-on ML leadership with product and engineering management from early-stage builds to scalable customer-facing platforms. Her work spans safety, robustness, and fairness in language models (Alexa AI), clinical conversational systems powering thousands of calls (Infinitus), and ML-native hiring products including interpretable rerankers and MLOps at Moonhub. She has a strong research pedigree (MIT, NYU CDS) and a track record of turning research into open datasets, patents, and conference papers that improve continuity of care and moderation in mental-health forums. Beyond engineering, she founded a nonprofit running hospital programs in Thailand and regularly mentors interns and PhD students, reflecting a blend of technical depth and community impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Level Course 6.3 and 18 Mathematics and Computer Science (Cross Registered), Graduate Level Course 6.3 and 18 Mathematics and Computer Science (Cross Registered) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA Computer Science Mathematics, BA Computer Science Mathematics at Wellesley CollegeGrad school Data Science Natural Language Processing, Grad school Data Science Natural Language Processing at NYU Center for Data Science
Thai, English, Spanish, Chinese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (108)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
to-do10
chat10
deep-learning10
chatgpt10
transformer10
transfer-learning10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
jupyter-notebook10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pruksmhc/jiant
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
The jiant sentence representation learning toolkit
Contributions:4 PRs, 97 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
nlprepresentationsentencesentence-representationrepresentation-learning
pruksmhc/pruksmhc.github.io
Dec 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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