Yiwei Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiwei Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience blending research-grade ML and production engineering, currently building conversational browser agents and contextual data scientist tools at Microsoft in Redmond. He holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M and has a track record of turning ML research into deployable systems—deploying tiny YOLO on edge devices, finetuning small LLMs on GPU clusters, and inventing memory‑efficient autoencoders and NAS optimizations during his PhD. At Microsoft he led Teams-AI integrations that enable IT workflows via natural language and built RAG engines over schema lineages to explain metrics and generate SQL, showing a knack for bridging UX, orchestration, and model plumbing. Earlier roles at Amazon and Trend Micro demonstrate experience shipping end-to-end media automation and secure enterprise integrations. Colleagues would note his unusual combination of deep academic rigor and pragmatic system-building that accelerates ML features from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 5th, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 5th at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (39)
python10
discord10
classification10
natural-language-generation10
regression10
automl10
naive-bayes10
natural-language-processing10
fairness-ml10
scikit-learn10
jupyter-notebook10
automated-machine-learning10
random-forest10
data-science9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sychen1121/sna_final_project
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:101 commits, 40 pushes in 25 days
YIWEI-CHEN/awesome-automated-machine-learning
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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