Chia-ta Tsai
Associate Director In Machine Learning
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChia-ta Tsai is an Associate Director in Machine Learning based in New York with nine years of industry experience and a deep academic background in bioinformatics. He builds end-to-end generative AI, LLM, NLP, and recommendation systems for financial services and real estate, taking projects from POC to production and delivering measurable gains such as a 100x PySpark speed-up and a 5% accuracy lift in screening models. Comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), big-data stacks (Spark, DataBricks, Dask) and modern ML tooling (PyTorch, Hugging Face, MLflow, Docker), he also architects event-driven microservices and MLOps pipelines. A polyglot in programming and human languages (Japanese JLPT N2, fluent English, native Mandarin), he mentors engineers and leads code-quality initiatives while retaining a researcher’s rigor from his years in academia and competitive ML research. What sets him apart is a track record of translating complex, cross-lingual NLP research into robust production systems that serve high-stakes Wall Street use cases.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Biological Science and Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Biological Science and Technology at National Chiao Tung University
English, Chinese, Japanese, Mandarin
Github Skills (25)
r9
parallel9
nvidia-docker9
classification9
data-mining9
kaggle9
lightgbm9
factorization9
decision-tree8
cuda8
python8
machine-learning8
nvidia8
gradient-boosting8
gradient8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cttsai1985/mlc_setup_ubuntu
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
cttsai1985/libffm
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
factorizationmachinesfactorization-machinesmachine-learningfield
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