Kaiser Sun
Research Intern at Together AI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaiser Sun is an AI researcher focused on natural language processing, with nine years of industry and academic experience spanning FAIR Labs, AWS AI Labs, and research roles at the University of Washington. He develops methods for efficient, explainable, and robust NLP while explicitly integrating fairness and bias considerations into his work. A dual background in computer science and mathematics (B.S./M.S. from UW) and mentorship under Noah A. Smith and Ana Marasović inform his rigorous, theory-aware approach. Currently an AI resident turned research intern and incoming PhD student at Johns Hopkins with Mark Dredze, he bridges applied industrial projects (e.g., Kendra, Plato) and foundational research. Notably, he combines applied engineering internships at Amazon with deep research roles, giving him a practical edge in moving models from prototype to production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonJohns Hopkins UniversityHigh School Diploma, Honors Curriculum, High School Diploma, Honors Curriculum at Shenzhen Middle School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (59)
transformers10
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
inference10
multimodal10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
gemma10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KaiserWhoLearns/CS-PhD-Application-fee-waivers
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Collections of CS PhD Application Fee Waivers of schools in North America
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
americanorthfeeschoolsphd
KaiserKkaiser/LinformerEffectiveAttention
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch.
Contributions:30 commits, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
natural-language-processingpytorchtensorflowtransformers
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