Prince Osei Aboagye

Prince Osei Aboagye, PhD

Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa | Building large-scale AI systems for search, ranking, and personalization | Research in Generative AI, Multimodal Learning & Reasoning Systems

About Me

Amazon Alexa

Applied Scientist building large-scale AI systems for search, ranking, and personalization. Working on LLM training, efficient inference, and production deployment.

Visa Research

Former Research Scientist focused on generative AI for complex sequences, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and multimodal data curation.

Research Interests

LLM Post-Training, Vision-Language Alignment, Reasoning, Data-Centric AI, Synthetic Data Generation, Model Compression, Computational Geometry.

Experience

Amazon Alexa

Applied Scientist — Seattle, WA
2024 – Present
  • Large-Scale LLM Training & Optimization with FlashAttention and Mixture-of-Experts
  • Agent-Driven Synthetic Data Generation (AFEG framework)
  • Graph-Based Hallucination Detection (PGIRE framework)
  • Post-Training Data Curation for SFT & Chain-of-Thought reasoning

Visa Research

Research Scientist — Palo Alto, CA
2023 – 2024
  • Co-developed TransactionGPT — adapting LLMs for complex sequences
  • Developed LECSiV — parameter-efficient fine-tuning extending LoRA
  • Multimodal data curation & human-in-the-loop workflows

Selected Publications

ICLR 2022

Normalization of Language Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Alignment

Prince Osei Aboagye, Jeff Phillips, Yan Zheng, et al.

ICLR 2023

Interpretable Debiasing of Vectorized Language Representations with Iterative Orthogonalization

Prince Osei Aboagye, Yan Zheng, Jack Shunn, et al.

KDD 2024

RPMixer: Shaking Up Time Series Forecasting with Random Projections for Large Spatial-Temporal Data

Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, et al., Prince Osei Aboagye, et al.

ICDM 2024

Matrix Profile for Anomaly Detection on Multidimensional Time Series

Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, et al., Prince Osei Aboagye, et al.

Preprint 2024

One-Hot Encoding Strikes Back: Fully Orthogonal Coordinate-Aligned Class Representations

Prince Osei Aboagye, et al.

Academic Projects

CS 6350 — Machine Learning

Classifying Movie Reviews

Built ML models to classify movie reviews as positive or negative. Explored multiple algorithms and feature engineering techniques for sentiment analysis.

Python Machine Learning NLP Sentiment Analysis
CS 6956 — Deep Learning for NLP

Music Genre Classification by Lyrics

Used deep neural networks to classify music genres (Hip-Hop, Metal, Rock, Pop, Country) from 380,000+ song lyrics. Compared DNNs against KNN, Random Forest, XGBoost, and SVM.

Deep Learning NLP Keras/TensorFlow 380K songs
CS 6170 — Computational Topology

Sentiment Classification with Topological Signatures

Applied topological data analysis (persistent homology) to sentiment classification, using topological signatures as features for text analysis.

TDA Persistent Homology Sentiment Research

Skills

Python PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face Large Language Models NLP LoRA / PEFT RAG FlashAttention Mixture of Experts Distributed Training AWS Docker Git SQL / Athena Computational Geometry Data-Centric ML

Education

PhD, Computer Science

University of Utah

2018 – 2023

Advisor: Dr. Jeff Phillips

Dissertation: Understanding the Geometry of Structured Vectorized Representations

MS, Applied Mathematics

University of Texas at El Paso

2016 – 2018

Advisor: Dr. Michael Pokojovy

BA, Mathematics & Economics

University of Ghana

2011 – 2015

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