Work Experience
[ Sep 2024 - Present ] Applied Scientist at Amazon, Applied AI - World-Wide Store, Bellevue, WA
Designed and deployed an LLM-driven web-based task automation platform supporting complex multi-step enterprise agentic workflows
Scoped and led an employee-facing web automation assistant from prototype to production deployment
Scoped and deployed a reliability monitoring framework for production agents, enabling continuous online quality tracking
Led an automated workflow generation system that mines historical task trajectories to templatize repetitive enterprise tasks
Sustained an active research pipeline (KDD 2025 Workshop, ongoing) while driving technical alignment across the organization
[ Jun–Sep 2021 & May–Sep 2023 ] Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon, Alexa AI, Sunnyvale, CA
Built an end-to-end audio-driven talking avatar pipeline: reconstructed photorealistic 3D head avatars from monocular video via NeRF (40% faster than baselines), introduced a vector-space expression control mechanism for disentangled manipulation, and drove avatars with speech signals for natural lip-sync and real-time head motion.
Professional Service
Reviewer
[ 2023–2025 ] Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
[ 2023–2025 ] Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
[ 2023 ] Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
[ 2021 ] IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[ 2020 ] IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[ 2020 ] IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[ 2020 ] IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
[ 2019 ] IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Conference organizer
[ 2023 ] SDM23 assistant session chair.
