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Hire Josh L. - NLP Engineer

Natural Language Processing Engineer

6+ years
los angeles, california, united states
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About josh

I'm Josh, a recent Computer Science M.S. graduate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's from the University of California Berkeley. My Master's thesis and expertise span computer vision, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning. My research focuses on leveraging both vision and language to extract information from images. My thesis research composes vision models using generated code to solve complex tasks, like visual-question answering.

Key Skills

algorithmsandroid developmentccomputer visiondata structuresdigital marketingfitbit developmentios developmentjavakotlinmachine learningnatural language processingpythonpytorchreinforcement learning+3 more

Experience

Natural Language Processing Engineer

Current

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Graduate Student Researcher

Uiuc Computer Vision Group

* Build and test a tunable system for visual question answering leveraging large language models to output code that composes vision models to maximize efficiency and accuracy * Fine-tune language models and vision models using reinforcement learning to answer questions * Collaborated with a small team to devise a method that includes previous outputs as in-context examples in the LLM’s prompts to achieve the 3rd best image score on the Winoground dataset

Teaching Assistant

University Of Illinois Urbana-champaign

* Designs coding projects that teach searching, HMMs, neural networks, and reinforcement learning * Maintains code from existing projects to ensure that student code and the autograder work correctly * Hosts weekly office hours to discuss course material with students and debug code

Education

University Of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Master Of Science

Uc Berkeley College Of Letters & Science

Bachelor Of Arts

University Of California, Berkeley

Bachelor Of Arts

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What is josh's expertise?

josh specializes in NLP Engineer, with expertise in algorithms, android development, c, computer vision, data structures.

Where is josh located?

josh is based in los angeles, california, united states.

How much experience does josh have?

josh has 6+ years of professional experience.

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