Bokai Yu
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolBokai Yu is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-ready NLP and retrieval systems across Europe. He has driven large-scale initiatives such as scaling embedding indexing for billions of products at Criteo (integrated into the open-source autofaiss project) and now applies ML expertise at Meta. His background spans multilingual short-text classification, visual search and attribute extraction, combining research-grade models with robust microservice deployments in Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Spark and Kubernetes. He has a track record of improving real-world metrics (e.g., large F1 gains in multilingual tweet sentiment) and delivering end-to-end solutions from data collection to monitoring. Based in Paris, he blends an engineer-researcher mindset with pragmatic production experience and a history of building tooling and services that accelerate team delivery. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-lingual and multimodal fluency—optimizing models and pipelines that work across languages, images and at web scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d’ingénieur, Computer Science specialized in Computer Systems and Networks, Diplôme d’ingénieur, Computer Science specialized in Computer Systems and Networks at Université de Technologie de CompiègneBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai University
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (74)
similarity-search10
transformers10
python10
deep-learning10
gemma10
glm10
multimodal10
audio10
transformer10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
knn10
pytorch10
evaluation10
machine-learning-models10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hitchhicker/tweet_nlp_toolkit
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 25 commits, 20 pushes in 4 months
hitchhicker/Implement-raft-on-Jade
Jun 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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