Dbin Zhang
Engineer Manager, TikTok Ads Core ML I Ranking at ByteDance
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDbin Zhang is an engineering manager leading TikTok Ads Core ML Ranking, with 9 years of experience building large-scale recommendation and ad delivery systems that marry research-grade ML with production efficiency. He directs a global team across ranking, retrieval, creative personalization and LLM-integrated ranking, architecting end-to-end stacks from recall to fine-sort while optimizing for cost, cold-starts and lifecycle stability. His work spans generative retrieval, large recommendation models, RL techniques and resource-aware optimization to boost long-term business outcomes beyond short-term monetization. With a PhD from Tsinghua and a background bridging applied mathematics and civil engineering, he combines rigorous research instincts with pragmatic engineering execution. Colleagues know him for translating modeling advances into measurable revenue and for setting robust system frameworks that scale across global ad formats.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
frb502/spark-skewed-join-hint
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
frb502/oco
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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