I'm a Principal Applied Scientist at AWS who builds AI services like Amazon Bedrock and Lex. AMA! [D]

Hi r/MachineLearning! I'm James Gung, a principal applied scientist at AWS. I joined Amazon in 2021 and have since worked on AI services like Lex, Bedrock, Q Business, and Amazon Quick (an AI assistant for work). In that time, I've done research on topics like task-oriented dialogue, agent evaluation, conversation simulation, and proactive agents.

Before AWS, I worked on conversational AI systems at Amelia and did my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Feel free to ask about my career path, internships, interviews, or what it's like day to day as an applied scientist at Amazon. Outside work, I like to play violin, go bouldering, travel with my wife, and hang out with our two dogs. Ask me anything!

*Disclaimer* I'm speaking from personal experience here, not as an official Amazon spokesperson. I can't discuss unannounced products, financials, competitors, internal tools, legal matters, pricing, or customer data - but pretty much everything else about my career, research, and life as an applied scientist is fair game. Let's go! 🧠

I'll be online at 11:00 AM ET for an hour to answer questions. 😊

James and Cici