Yi-fu Wu
AI Algorithms Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYi-fu Wu is an AI algorithms engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience bridging production engineering and cutting-edge research. After senior engineering and platform leadership roles in startups and enterprise (Boxed, Adap.tv) he pivoted into ML research, contributing as a student researcher and research intern at Google, Generally Intelligent, Meta, and Apple before joining NVIDIA. He brings rare full-stack product intuition to algorithm work—able to move ideas from research prototypes to deployable systems at scale. Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Rutgers, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on experience across industry labs and production teams. An implicit strength is his cross-domain fluency: finance app development early in his career plus platform leadership gives him practical perspective on performance, reliability, and real-world constraints in AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Rutgers University–New BrunswickUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignStanford University
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Github Skills (32)
speech-to-text10
machine-translation10
speech-synthesis10
multimodal10
large-language-models10
nmt10
generative-ai10
speaker-recognition10
asr10
conversational-ai10
nlp10
chatbot10
nlp-machine-learning10
speaker-diarization9
text-normalization9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
giddyinc/opsworks-cookbooks
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
cookbookschefopsworksaws
yfw/gym-minigrid
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Minimalistic gridworld package for OpenAI Gym
Contributions:5 pushes in 9 days
gridworldreinforcement-learningopenaiminimalisticgym
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