Summary
Feier Lian is a Machine Learning Scientist with a decade of experience building end-to-end predictive solutions and production-grade ML services for enterprise customers, currently based in San Jose. At FICO she led the design and deployment of the FICO xAI Toolkit and a distributed model-explanation backend, combining state-of-the-art explainability algorithms, automated pipeline search, and Kubernetes/Ray-based scaling to improve accuracy and trust. Trained as a PhD in digital signal processing, she pairs rigorous research and multiple publications/patents with strong software engineering in Python, C++, and cloud-native tooling. Feier’s work emphasizes making sophisticated ML accessible to nontechnical teams through programmatic APIs and code-free reporting, reducing manual effort across data science workflows. She continuously explores new methods in xAI and autoML, bringing both academic depth and practical impact to business problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Communications; Digital Signal Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Communications; Digital Signal Processing at North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Southeast University
English, Chinese