Summary
Boyuan Pan is a Senior Staff Scientist at Xiaohongshu with nine years of experience bridging AI research and production systems in search, NLP, and recommender engines for a 300M-MAU social platform. He progressed rapidly through research and engineering roles at Xiaohongshu after PhD studies in computer science at Zhejiang University, with visiting research stints at UIUC and Ohio State and industry research exposure at Alibaba. Boyuan combines deep academic rigor—evident from his doctoral training—with hands-on product impact, optimizing retrieval and ranking at scale. Based in Shanghai, he focuses on turning cutting-edge NLP and IR techniques into robust, latency-sensitive systems for personalized discovery. An underappreciated strength is his mathematical background in applied math, which he leverages to design principled models that remain practical for production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher at The Ohio State University
Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of California, Los Angeles
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English