Yi Dong

Yi Dong is a Senior Applied Scientist working on natural language processing/deep learning real-world applications at NVIDIA. Yi gained his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine studying computational neuroscience. Yi has 10 years of experience in computer software engineering, machine learning, and finance. Yi likes reading about the latest advancements in deep learning and applying them to solve enterprise problems.
Yi Dong

Posts by Yi Dong

Technical Walkthrough 6 Jul 12, 2022

Adapting P-Tuning to Solve Non-English Downstream Tasks

With the increasing demand for access to pretrained large language model (LLM) weights, the climate around LLM sharing is changing. Recently, Meta released Open... 15 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 2 May 09, 2022

Generating Synthetic Data with Transformers: A Solution for Enterprise Data Challenges

Big data, new algorithms, and fast computation are three main factors that make the modern AI revolution possible. However, data poses many challenges for... 8 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 1 Oct 21, 2021

Accelerated Portfolio Construction with Numba and Dask in Python

Python is no stranger to data scientists. It ranks as the most popular computer language and is widely used for all kinds of tasks. Though Python is notoriously... 8 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Jun 16, 2020

Training and Fine-tuning BERT Using NVIDIA NGC

Imagine an AI program that can understand language better than humans can. Imagine building your own personal Siri or Google Search for a customized domain or... 12 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 3 Mar 19, 2020

Accelerating Python for Exotic Option Pricing

In finance, computation efficiency can be directly converted to trading profits sometimes. Quants are facing the challenges of trading off research efficiency... 25 MIN READ