Eugene Yan
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; earlier led ML at Amazon and Alibaba/Lazada.
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- Eugene Yan works on applied AI and writes at eugeneyan.com about machine learning, recommender systems and LLMs.
- He is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.
- From 2020 to 2025 he was a principal applied scientist at Amazon, working on retrieval, ranking and LLM products.
- Earlier he led machine learning at Alibaba's Lazada.
Key facts
- Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff, from 2026 (as of November 2026)1
- Amazon
- Principal applied scientist, 2020 to 20251
- Before
- ML lead at a healthtech Series A, 2018 to 2019; Alibaba/Lazada, data scientist then VP of machine learning, 2015 to 2018; IBM, 2013 to 20141
- Lives
- Seattle1
Roles
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- AnthropicOrganization
Member of Technical Staff (as of November 2026); earlier principal applied scientist at Amazon source on Anthropic
Before
Part of until 2025
Amazon (principal applied scientist: retrieval, ranking, recommender systems and LLM products) source on Amazon
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