Nan Wang

AI Researcher

Mountain View, California, United States3 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in advancing LLM capabilities.
  • Led development of innovative AI solutions.
  • Strong background in machine learning and data mining.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled AI/ML researcher with a focus on large language models and evidence generation systems.

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Skills

Other Skills

PythonJavaMatlabLaTeXMachine LearningData MiningDeep Learning

Experience

3 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
10 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Amazon agi

Senior Applied Scientist

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos

  • Advancing agentic capabilities of foundational LLMs through mid- and post-training

Character.ai

Member of Technical Staff

Dec 2024Aug 2025 · 8 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

  • I led the development of post-training recipes for open-source large language models, leading to the first open-source production model at Character.AI.
  • My primary research focuses are: (1) scaling RL training with a vast amount of (noisy) online user preference and feedback data; and (2) designing novel reward models and reward ensembles.

Netflix

Research Scientist

Jul 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • I led cross-functional efforts of developing a personalized (textual) evidence generation system, leading to the first end-to-end GenAI system for evidence personalization at Netflix.
  • I also developed safety guardrails for the conversational search experience.

Meta

Research Intern at Meta AI

May 2022Sep 2022 · 4 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

Google

3 roles

Research Intern

May 2021Aug 2021 · 3 mos

Student Researcher at Google Research

Aug 2020Dec 2020 · 4 mos

Research Intern at Google Research

May 2020Aug 2020 · 3 mos

Education

University of Virginia

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Computer Science

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Bachelor's degree

University of Oxford

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