Yifan Gao

Yifan G. is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon since February 2022, focusing on building large language models (LLM) for Amazon Search, with a prior role as Applied Scientist II involved in mission understanding and LLM development. Previous experience includes an Applied Scientist Intern position at A9.com, where Yifan contributed to multilingual keyphrase generation, and internships at Amazon Web Services working on open-domain question answering, Salesforce Research Asia on conversational machine reading, and Tencent AI Lab on question generation, with published works in notable conferences such as NAACL and ACL. Yifan holds a PhD in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic & Information Engineering from Beihang University.