Chao Tao
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at YouTube
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Tao is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in California with a decade of experience building data-driven systems and research-informed models. Currently at YouTube, he focuses on short-form video exploration and trend analysis, bringing production ML to large-scale recommendation problems. His background blends academic rigor—PhD work at Indiana University and research stints at UIUC and Shandong University—with industry internships at Google and Pony.ai, where he worked on reinforcement learning, content recommendation, and trajectory prediction. Known as a fan of math and computer science, he combines theoretical insight (e.g., bandit/variance-aware research) with practical engineering to translate complex algorithms into scalable products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Technology at Shandong University
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
reward10
crossword9
nitro9
duplicate-detection9
mahjong9
fuzzy-logic9
beancount9
rank9
tushare8
multiprocessing8
typography8
mathml8
latex8
mathjax8
dummy-data8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Alanthink/banditpylib
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
A lightweight python library for bandit algorithms
Contributions:63 reviews, 29 commits, 26 PRs in 6 months
pythonbeancountmahjongpattern-recognitioncrossword
Alanthink/blog
Jul 2016 - Apr 2021
blog site
Contributions:1 PR, 161 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
blog-site
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