Search and Discovery

SEO team.

Photo Mode team.

Alexa International team.

• Won 1st place ($500,000 prize) in Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 2 under Professor Zhou Yu.

• Led team in developing state machines for multi-turn conversations with Alexa users.

• Developed movie and book chat modules that became the most popular and highly rated, generating over 10,000 responses daily and accounting for 40% of our bot's overall traffic.

• Conducted research on improving benchmarks for amodal instance segmentation under Professor Yong Jae Lee.

• Proposed an approach that combines generative adversarial networks with transfer learning on synthetic images.

• Modified and trained neural network architectures including Deepmask, SharpMask, and Mask R-CNN.