Edward Cui
Director Of Data Science, Search And Recommendation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Cui is a data science and machine learning leader with a Ph.D. in neuroscience and 13 years of experience building production recommendation and personalization systems for large consumer platforms. He has led cross-functional teams and end-to-end MLOps at Peacock, driving transformer-based and NLP/GNN solutions that influenced tens of millions of users and hundreds of millions of viewing hours. As Director of Data Science for Search and Recommendation, he combines rigorous research instincts from his academic neuroimaging and electrophysiology background with practical engineering—authoring a book on vectorization and shipping scalable TFX/Beam/Vertex AI pipelines. He’s known for translating complex modeling research into robust production services, hiring and mentoring high-performing teams, and optimizing feature stores and continuous retraining at scale. An unexpected strength is his blend of wet-lab experimental discipline and software engineering craft, which informs a data-driven, reproducible approach to product ML.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior at University of California, DavisDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University
Chinese
Github Skills (200)
python10
windows10
language-server-protocol10
media-player10
deep-learning10
audio-player10
streaming10
python-development10
qt10
beam10
ml10
audio10
sql10
golang10
neural-network10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sapphire008/MATLAB
Jun 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
sapphire008/Python
May 2013 - Aug 2021
Contributions:184 commits, 168 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 4 months
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