Yawen Wu
Applied Scientist II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYawen Wu is an Applied Scientist II at Amazon Web Services AI in New York with 11 years of experience building and deploying large language and vision-language models for products like Amazon Q and CodeWhisperer. Her career spans industry research and academia, including senior research engineering at Qualcomm, ML internships at Meta Reality Labs and Baidu USA, and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh focused on efficient, fair AI for healthcare. She combines hands-on model engineering—particularly LLMs for coding and on-device ML—with system-aware deployment skills honed across cloud and edge environments. Known for bridging research and productization, she brings a track record of shipping practical, efficiency-focused ML solutions in both industrial and academic settings. An engineer comfortable with both low-level optimization and high-level model design, she often tackles fairness and resource-constrained inference challenges that are easy to overlook in production ML.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Control Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Control Science and Engineering at Shandong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
sdwuyawen/linux2.6.22_helper2416
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
sdwuyawen/LinuxDirvers
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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