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Peng Wang

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Director of Engineering at Dandy
📍 New York, New York, United States

Peng Wang is an engineering leader with deep expertise in Generative AI, LLMs, and NLP. A Ph. D. graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he has a strong track record leading research and engineering teams at Dandy, Grammarly, and AlphaSense to build and deliver impactful, cutting-edge AI products.

Outside of his formal roles, Peng is an active member of the AI research community. He attends major conferences like NeurIPS and maintains connections with his academic roots, valuing meetings with former professors and peers. He follows emerging trends, such as developments in foundational models.

He once led the effort at Grammarly to make LLMs more personalized and contextual, building agents to help people with their writing.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Generative AI & LLMs
His career focus involves building and leading teams to solve challenging ML problems using LLMs, Deep Learning, and NLP at companies like Grammarly and Patronus AI.
AI-Powered Search
At AlphaSense, he led large, distributed engineering teams to build a state-of-the-art AI-powered search platform for market intelligence.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Director of Engineering
Dandy
6-2025 - 9-2025
Head of Applied Research
Patronus AI
6-2024 - 6-2025
Director, Research
Grammarly
5-2023 - 5-2024
Senior Director, Search & AI
AlphaSense
1-2021 - 5-2023
Director of AI Research
AlphaSense
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Education
Ph.D
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor's degree; Master degree
University of Science and Technology of China
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