Yifan Gao

Applied Scientist II, Amazon Search/A9

   Palo Alto, CA

   Gmail: yifangao95

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Biography

Yifan is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Search working on building large language models for shopping. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof. Irwin King and Prof. Michael R. Lyu. He interned at Amazon Search (A9.com), AWS AI Labs, Salesforce Research, and Tencent AI Lab during his Ph.D. study.

Research Internship positions in Amazon Search are available. Feel free to send your CV to me if you are interested in building large language models for shopping.

Research Interests

My research interests are in natural language processing and machine learning. I am currently working on building large language models for shopping in Amazon Search. During my PhD study, I teach machines to ask and answer reading comprehension questions driven by two goals:

I have also worked on open-domain dialogue generation [EMNLP'20-Findings] and keyphrase generation [AAAI'19].

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