Gustavo A.
Applied Scientist, Amazon, Alexa+ | Ph.D. in AI/NLP
- Role
- Applied Scientist, Alexa at Amazon
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gustavo A.
I am currently working as an Applied Scientist in the Amazon Alexa AI team. I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Houston (December 2020). My dissertation was on Neural Sequence Labeling on Social Media Text and I was advised by Dr. Thamar Solorio.During my PhD, I had the chance to work on linguistic code-switching sequence labeling, multimodal and multi-view learning for emotion recognition (Alexa Speech), knowledge distillation (Alexa AI), and model robustness to social media noise (Salesforce Research).My PhD was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF grant #19•••92) and the 2019 Snap Research Fellowship.Keywords: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Experience
Applied Scientist, Alexa
Mar 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
University of Houston
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
2016 — 2020
Universidad Centroamericana 'José Simeón Cañas'
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
2010 — 2015
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