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Wenlin Yao

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Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
📍 Greater Seattle Area, United States

Wenlin Yao is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, where he focuses on developing Generative AI for shopping applications like Amazon Rufus. His expertise lies in improving Large Language Models, particularly in mitigating hallucinations and enhancing interpretability. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Outside of his primary research, Wenlin has an interest in mathematics, specifically Euclidean plane geometry, and practiced Chinese traditional calligraphy for many years during his youth. He also participated in the National Mathematical Olympiad in high school.

He received an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2023 for his work on interpretable sentence representation, placing his research in the top 0. 5% of submissions.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Senior Applied Scientist
Location
Greater Seattle Area, United States
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LLM Hallucination
His research is centered on detecting and mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models, which is the subject of one of his major publications.
Generative AI
He is currently working on GenAI for shopping at Amazon, specifically on the Rufus project, applying LLMs to real-world consumer applications.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Senior Applied Scientist
Amazon
11-2020 - 10-2024
Senior Researcher
Tencent America
5-2020 - 8-2020
NLP research intern
Tencent America
5-2019 - 8-2019
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon
5-2018 - 8-2018
Research Intern
BBN Technologies
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Education
2015 - 2020
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Texas A&M University
2011 - 2015
Bachelor's degree
Dalian University of Technology
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