Eugene Yan
Eugene Yan is an applied scientist at Amazon who builds machine learning and recommendation systems. In 2024, he shipped production ML and LLM systems, published six pieces on synthetic data and LLM evaluation, and created two AI applications including AlignEval, an LLM evaluation tool; he is also recognized in the ML community for technical writing on his website covering machine learning systems, data science methodology, and career topics.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Sep 2020 → Dec 2024
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Latest developments
2024 Year in Review
Eugene Yan · 1 year ago ·
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Netflix PRS 2024 - Applying LLMs to Recommendation Experiences
Eugene Yan · 2 years ago ·
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AI Engineer 2023 Keynote - Building Blocks for LLM Systems
Eugene Yan · 2 years ago ·
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2022 in Review & 2023 Goals
Eugene Yan · 3 years ago ·
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The Data Scientist Show - Building end-to-end ML systems
Eugene Yan · 4 years ago ·
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The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning
Eugene Yan · 4 years ago ·
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Amazon Science - Eugene Yan and the Art of Writing about Science
Eugene Yan · 5 years ago ·
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Towards Data Science - Author Spotlight with Eugene Yan
Eugene Yan · 5 years ago ·
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