Derek Chen

Experience

ASAPP

Research Scientist 2019 - Present (over 7 years)

Data Augmentation, Few-shot Learning, Data Denoising, and Conversational AI:
- Novel research on data efficiency and dialogue systems, including published work at EMNLP... more

Exit

SchoolMint

Product Manager 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)

- Served as primary product owner for Google project and established daycares as a new line of business
- Outlined strategic priorities through tickets, specs and wireframes... more

Udacity

Program Manager 2014 - 2015 (6 months)

- Lead the development of the company's flagship product, the Nanodegree, a new credential for getting students job-ready in the modern workforce
- Developed roadmap and... more

Notable

Lead Product Manager 2013 - 2014 (over 1 year)

- Created a company in the EdTech industry by recruiting a team, leading product development, and iterating on releases to reach thousands of users
- Enlisted half-dozen... more

Apollo Education Group

Product Analyst 2013 (7 months)

- Performed research and analysis on education industry to gain insights on the modern competitive landscape
- Conducted multiple rounds of user research and analyzed results... more

Inflection

Product Manager 2011 - 2013 (almost 2 years)

- Owned the product roadmap for the company’s mobile strategy, driving 35% annual lift in visitor value
- Defined, tracked, and analyzed metrics to assess product performance... more

Employee

Inflection, Udacity, Notable, Apollo Education Group, SchoolMint, ASAPP

Education

About

Achievements

Transitioned from non-technical product manager to published NLP research scientist in less than four years. Currently focused on dialogue systems, natural language understanding and data efficiency.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Product Development Product Management Machine Learning Deep Learning PyTorch Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/Scikit-learn Machine Learning Data Science Python Natural Language Processing Natural Language Understanding Dialogue Dialogue Systems

Locations

San Francisco San Jose Mountain View Palo Alto New York City Brooklyn

Derek Chen

NLP Research Scientist working at the intersection of dialogue systems and data efficiency. Graduated from UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UofWashington

Transitioned from non-technical product manager to published NLP research scientist in less than four years. Currently focused on dialogue systems, natural language understanding and data efficiency.