Chih-hao Fang
Lead AI ML Engineer at Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChih-hao Fang is a Lead AI/ML Engineer with a Ph.D. from Purdue and nine years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and production systems across academia and industry. He has driven measurable gains in commercial products—e.g., improving pricing-model accuracy and generalization at Amazon and building an LLM-based evaluation tool that won an international hackathon—while advancing novel ML methods such as supervised archetypal analysis and graph-based news framing. His work spans NLP, constrained and distributed optimization, causal RL, and efficient second-order training, and he has hands-on expertise implementing GPU kernels and scalable MapReduce tools. Now leading AI efforts at Optum, he combines rigorous research pedigree (Sigma Xi member) with a track record of shipping cost-efficient, explainable, and high-impact ML solutions in health and commerce.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Purdue UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
Github Skills (15)
python9
gpu9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow7
numpy7
neural-network7
acceleration6
tensor6
gpu-acceleration6
autograd6
hybrid1
graph1
graph-database1
datastore1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fang150/Newton_ADMM
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
fang150/fang150.github.io
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:312 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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