{"id":9361,"date":"2026-09-18T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiproblog.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/im-a-principal-applied-scientist-at-aws-who-builds-ai-services-like-amazon-bedrock-and-lex-ama-d\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:13:30","slug":"im-a-principal-applied-scientist-at-aws-who-builds-ai-services-like-amazon-bedrock-and-lex-ama-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiproblog.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/im-a-principal-applied-scientist-at-aws-who-builds-ai-services-like-amazon-bedrock-and-lex-ama-d\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m a Principal Applied Scientist at AWS who builds AI services like Amazon Bedrock and Lex. AMA! [D]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi r\/MachineLearning<\/a>! 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. <\/p>\n

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

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! <\/p>\n

*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! \ud83e\udde0 <\/p>\n

I’ll be online at 11:00 AM ET for an hour to answer questions. \ud83d\ude0a <\/p>\n

James and Cici<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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