Jerry Zikun Chen

Jerry Zikun Chen

Applied Scientist

Amazon

TL;DR 👀

I am an applied scientist at Amazon Alexa+, making the AI assistant more personalized for our customers. Originally from Shanghai, I completed my undergraduate degree in applied mathematics 🧮 and Master of Science in Applied Computing 👨🏻‍🎓 both at the University of Toronto. My research interests lie in language models and reinforcement learning 🦾 .

Interests

  • NLP, RL, Data Science
  • ⚽️ ⛷ 🎸 🏊🏻‍♂️ 🎮

Education

  • MSc in Applied Computing - Data Science, 2020

    University of Toronto

  • HBSc in Mathematics - Math Application in Economics and Finance, Statistics and Computer Science, 2019

    University of Toronto

Work Experience

经历 🧑🏻‍💻

 
 
 
 
 

Applied Scientist II

Amazon

Apr 2025 – Present Toronto
Personalization Autonomy and Proactive Intelligence for Alexa+
 
 
 
 
 

Machine Learning Scientist

ChainML / Theoriq

Nov 2023 – Apr 2025 Toronto
AI Agent Collectives on a Decentralized Protocol
 
 
 
 
 

Machine Learning Intern -> Senior AI/ML Scientist

The Vanguard Group

May 2020 – Nov 2023 Toronto
ML research in NLP, Gen AI, and RL for portfolio construction and marketing use cases
 
 
 
 
 

Software Developer Intern

CPP Investments

May 2018 – Aug 2018 Toronto
 
 
 
 
 

Data Analyst Intern

Equitable Bank

Jan 2018 – Apr 2018 Toronto

Public Speaking

演讲 🗣

Multi Task Tabular Deep Learning for Propensity Optimization in Marketing

RE•WORK Toronto AI Summit – To drive usage growth in any products or services, identifying the proper audience to target for …