Chuanwei R
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuanwei R is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in personalization and recommender systems, currently leading graph relevance at Meta after heading Discover ML at Instacart. He designs end-to-end personalization stacks—embedding learning, ML-based retrieval, whole-page ranking, and GenAI-powered recommender features—that drive discovery across storefronts, buy-it-again, and item detail surfaces. Known for blending research-grade techniques like generative retrieval with production-grade engineering, he also coordinates cross-functional ranking with ads teams to optimize joint outcomes. Trained in statistics at Stanford and mathematics at Chongqing University, he brings a strong quantitative foundation to large-scale ML systems. Notably, his career shows a consistent focus on turning advanced retrieval and ranking research into robust, user-facing personalization products.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at Chongqing UniversityMaster’s Degree, Statistics, Master’s Degree, Statistics at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
controlled4
intelligent3
reinforcement-learning2
agent2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
richardruancw/deeprecsys
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 21 PRs, 24 pushes in 6 months
richardruancw/StarcraftElite
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 12 PRs, 32 pushes in 17 days
stanfordintelligent-agentcontrolledagentreinforcement-learning
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