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Shengjia Yan


yanshengjia

Tech Lead | Software Engineer | Founder

I build scalable software systems and practical AI-powered products. My background spans software engineering and machine learning, with experience in NLP, GenAI, and Agentic AI. I am also a blog writer, an active GitHub contributor, and the builder of PawTimer, a smart pet companion I created to help track walks, routines, and everyday care.


Education

New York University
New York University
MS, Computer Engineering
2019.08 ~ 2020.12
Southeast University
Southeast University
BS, Computer Science
2013.08 ~ 2017.06
Wuxi No.1 High School
Wuxi No.1 High School
High School Diploma, Honors Class
2010.09 ~ 2013.06

Work Experiences

Amazon
Amazon
SDE @ Amazon
2021.02 ~ Present
Amazon
Amazon
SDE Intern @ Amazon Payment Products
2020.06 ~ 2020.08
NYU Tandon
NYU High Speed Networking Lab
Research Assistant
2019.09 ~ 2019.11
17zuoye
17zuoye
Software Engineer @ AI Research Group
2017.06 ~ 2019.06

Research

My general research involves Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

I joined Knowledge Science and Engineering Lab of Southeast University at 2014. I worked with Prof. Guilin Qi, also closely with Dr. Tianxing Wu. There, I focused on Entity Linking, that is the task of determining the identity of entities mentioned in text. Potential application includes Question Answering and Knowledge Graph.

I joined 17zuoye (aka Homework Together) after graduation from SEU. There, I focused on Automated Essay Scoring, along with Spell Checking and Grammar Error Correction. As a leading EdTech Company, 17zuoye is committed to improve learning experience for Chinese students. We are dedicated to build an advanced Intelligent Tutoring System to achieve that goal.


Publications

  • Tian Jin, Zhun Liu, Shengjia Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency, “Language to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions”, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020: 6994-7007. [PDF][Code]
  • Tianxing Wu, Shengjia Yan, Zhixin Piao, Liang Xu, Ruiming Wang, Guilin Qi, “Entity Linking in Web Tables with Multiple Linked Knowledge Bases”, In Proceedings of the 6th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2016), Springer International Publishing, 2016: 239-253. [PDF][Code]
  • Tianxing Wu, Guilin Qi, Taiyun Liu, Shengjia Yan, Zhixin Piao, Liang Xu, Ruiming Wang, “A Method of Entity Linking in Web Tables based on Multiple Linked Knowledge Bases”, Chinese Patent, 2016.

Projects

Please check this page for details!


Interests

  • Electronic Music / Gym / Travel / Movie / Overwatch   This world needs more heroes!
  • Reading / Blogging / Vlogging
  • Computer Systems / Machine Learning

Contacts

i@yanshengjia.com

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