Fan Yang
Senior Applied Scientist at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Yang is a Senior Applied Scientist and machine learning leader with 11 years of experience building recommender systems, user profiling, and scalable backend infrastructure across consumer platforms. He has driven measurable product wins—such as a 50% CTR lift and 20% increase in orders at Zhihu—and led cross-functional teams to deploy universal user embeddings and novel models like FastFormer and TensorFlow Recommender at SmartNews. Now based in California, he combines hands-on engineering with product-facing leadership as a Senior Applied Scientist at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios while co-founding Rental Buddy AI. Equally comfortable in research and production, he brings a track record of improving diversity and candidate generation in news and applying novel negative sampling and re-ranking approaches. His background spans software engineering to M.Eng. level training from USTC, with side interests in blockchain and game coding evident from his GitHub bio.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Software Engineering at University of Science and Technology of ChinaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Software Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (41)
blockchain-platform10
eosio10
solidity9
codex9
go-api9
contract9
blockchain9
ethereum9
smart-contracts9
eos9
api8
documentation-generator8
substrate8
internet-computer7
blockchain-service7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
codexnetwork/Documentation
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Documentation for Codex Network
Contributions:42 commits, 33 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 months
ethereumcodexblockchain
codexnetwork/codex.relay.contracts
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Relay Contract For Chain In Codex
Contributions:60 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
codexrelayethereumcontractblockchain
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