PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Chentao Ye

Chentao Ye is a senior applied scientist on Amazon's AGI Responsible AI team, where he works on pretraining for large language models. He coauthored an art question-answering dataset and research on spoken-language domain classification. In October 2025, he coauthored an AWS post about adapting Amazon Nova for text moderation. His 2026 papers examined misaligned computer-use actions and attacks that exploit agent skills.

Now at
Amazon
Works
2
Citations
1
h-index
1

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2020

    An art question dataset

    In 2020, he coauthors AQUA, an art question-answering dataset whose questions draw on paintings and comments about art.

  2. 2021

    Contextual dialogue classification

    In 2021, he coauthors a study on spoken-language domain classification that uses time differences and turn order to combine recent and distant dialogue context.

  3. October 2025

    Customizing Nova moderation

    In October 2025, he coauthors an AWS post on fine-tuning Amazon Nova for content moderation tailored to organization-specific policies.

  4. February 2026

    Misaligned computer-use actions

    In February 2026, he coauthors a study that introduces MisActBench for action-level misalignment and DeAction, a guardrail that detects and corrects misaligned actions before execution.

  5. June 2026

    SkillHarm's attack benchmark

    In June 2026, he coauthors SkillHarm, a benchmark for skill-based attacks across the skill-use lifecycle, with a taxonomy of related risks.

  6. As of October 2026

    Senior scientist at Amazon AGI

    As of October 2026, he is a senior applied scientist on Amazon's AGI responsible-AI team, working on pretraining for large language models.

Most-cited works

  1. When Actions Go Off-Task: Detecting and Correcting Misaligned Actions in Computer-Use Agents2026 · 1 citations
  2. SkillHarm: Lifecycle-Aware Skill-Based Attacks via Automated Construction2026 · 0 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. Google alumni founded or led 81 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Amazon. We trace 194 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 202 career moves between the labs.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Amazon. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes Amazon. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  4. 12 of 76 people shaping AI with a former OpenAI role now work at AnthropicIncludes Amazon. Our estimates of where OpenAI recruits came from and where people with former OpenAI roles work now.

Sources and credits

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  1. A Dataset and Baselines for Visual Question Answering on Art arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Contextual Domain Classification with Temporal Representations aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Customizing text content moderation with Amazon Nova aws.amazon.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. When Actions Go Off-Task: Detecting and Correcting Misaligned Actions in Computer-Use Agents arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. SkillHarm: Lifecycle-Aware Skill-Based Attacks via Automated Construction arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Inside Amazon's responsible-AI pipeline amazon.science. Checked 19 October 2026.