Yee Seng Chan

Massachusetts, United States
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Summary

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Yee Chan is a seasoned AI scientist based in Boston with 11 years of NLP-focused experience. He has led multi-million dollar NLP programs as a principal investigator and mentor, and was the primary developer of Raytheon BBN Technologies' deep learning NLP system that underpins many of the company's projects. He boasts a track record of state-of-the-art NLP solutions in both industry and academia, with expertise in information extraction, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, model customization, DPO, end-to-end RAG, and working with encoders such as T5, LLaMA, and Mistral. Most recently at AvodahMed, he continues to push AI research and application, and at Elemental Cognition he built an ontology-agnostic medical term linking solution and a GPT-3.5-powered title/definition generation tool. He has cultivated relationships with DoD, top universities, and corporate clients, frequently earning praise from clients and leadership for leadership and rapid delivery. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore, blending rigorous academic training with hands-on industrial impact.
code11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (4)

tac10
extraction9
ontologies9
assembly2

Programming languages (2)

ScalaPython

Github contributions (5)

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BBN-E/tac-kbp-eal

Jul 2014 - Jan 2016

Contributions:85 commits in 1 year 6 months
extractionlinkingtac
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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