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Hi, I'm Yi-Wei Chen

Senior Software Engineer - Applied AI

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

About Me

I received Ph.D. degree of Computer Science at Texas A&M University, advised by Dr. Xia Ben Hu. My research focuses on Text-to-SQL, small language model (SLM) post-training, and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR).

  • I currently work at Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer in Applied AI, evaluating large language models (LLMs) for Text-to-SQL in Microsoft Dataverse.
  • I was an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon in Fall 2021, working on automated video generation for video ads with Dr. Chu Wang.
  • I was a Research Intern at Microsoft in Summer 2021, working on constrained hyperparameter optimization with Dr. Chi Wang.

Before that, I obtained M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2015. My advisor was Dr. Shih-Hao Hung.

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