Bixing Yan
Research Scientist at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBixing Yan is a Senior Software Engineer focused on machine learning at LinkedIn with a PhD in Physics and over a decade of experience building production ML products. He combines rigorous research grounding with hands-on engineering to ship recommendation, search, and NLP features that scale across millions of users. Previously at Udemy and SurveyMonkey he applied weak supervision, multi-metric optimization, BERT, and collaborative filtering to materially improve recommendation accuracy and throughput. His academic work includes a meta-learning embedding project that accelerated adaptation by ~70% and an NYU census digitization effort that boosted OCR accuracy from 76% to 98.3%, reflecting his strength in both models and data engineering. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends deep theory with pragmatic product impact and a playful GitHub handle that hints at a curious, experimental mindset.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CFA InstituteMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Lanzhou UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (40)
scanner10
docker10
web-application10
redis10
docker-compose10
tcp-port10
dockerfile10
amqp9
modular9
periodic-tasks9
penetration-testing9
celery9
sql-injection9
celery-task9
python9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
b1ngz/tencent_exmail
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
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Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
b1ngz/b1ngz.github.io
Sep 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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