Jie Gao is a senior NLP researcher and software engineer with 18+ years of experience spanning academia and industry, focused on turning cutting-edge research into scalable, enterprise-grade AI systems. He is currently leading LLM-powered, agentic AI initiatives at ZILO to streamline asset and wealth-management decision workflows. His expertise covers classic ML, generative and multimodal AI, and knowledge-intensive systems, with hands-on full-stack delivery in Python, Java, CUDA, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP). In his previous role at Logically, he guided AI/NLP efforts on misinformation detection and fact-checking, mentoring cross-functional teams to ship real-time content processing and semantic search capabilities. An active researcher, he has published 10+ papers at AAAI, ICLR, and KDD and led projects in semantic web, linked data, and distributed ML. Based in London, Jie bridges research and production, delivering robust AI platforms that combine information retrieval and knowledge graphs with practical, auditable deployment.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science and Technology, BSc (Hons), Computer Science and Technology at Yancheng institute of technology
GoodAgile
Msc (Graduated with Merit), Web Technology-Computer Science, Msc (Graduated with Merit), Web Technology-Computer Science at University of Southampton
The University of Sheffield
CMI Level 5 in Management, CMI Level 5, CMI Level 5 in Management, CMI Level 5 at Ashorne Hill Management College
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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