Aza T.

About Aza T.

Please check my personal website for the latest updates: https://atulep.github.ioI am currently a machine learning software engineer in Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) team at Google. My main duties includes applying foundational AI research into practical applications in Google products.I also have strong research background with publications at top venues, such as NeurIPS and ICLR. My research focuses on dialogue management, with specific applications in recommendation systems and, more recently, behavior change. Please visit my Google Scholar page for details.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Google

   Jun 2018 — Present · US

   Machine Learning Engineer at Google HealthSoftware Engineer for Google CloudSoftware Engineer for Google Assistant- Worked on client libraries, tools and help make experience better for Actions on Google developers- Developed a Golang CLI that processes configuration and resource files (i.e. audio, images). Checkout https://developers.google.com/assistant/actionssdk/gactions.Research Software Engineer in Reinforcement Learning- Worked on applying Reinforcement Learning to the area of Natural Language Understanding- Implemented popular Deep RL algorithms, such as Soft Actor Critic, and NLP models, such as Transformers, Hierarchical Encoder Decoder models- Wrote Machine Learning infrastructure to run our experiments.

Education

• Boise State University

  Bachelor's degree, B.S. Computer Science, Honors College

  2014 — 2018