Derek Chen

Derek is the Co-Founder and CEO of Soleda, an AI platform building trustworthy AI agents with advanced natural language understanding and deep reinforcement learning capabilities. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at ASAPP, where he specialized in data augmentation, few-shot learning, and conversational AI, contributing to research published at EMNLP and NAACL. Earlier, he worked as an AI Research Engineer at Cresta, focusing on task-oriented dialogue systems. Derek holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Washington and conducted NLP research at Columbia University, specializing in scalable data-gathering for training dialogue systems and LLMs.