Feng Wang
Principal AI Research Engineer at Elastic
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, Singapore
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Top SchoolFeng Wang is a Principal AI Research Engineer with 11 years of experience designing recommender systems, machine learning models, and data mining solutions across research and product settings. He holds a Ph.D. from Hong Kong Baptist University focused on recommender systems, NLP, and deep learning, and has progressed from academia to senior research roles at Tencent and Huya before leading engineering and principal roles at Jina AI and Elastic. Feng blends deep research rigor with hands-on engineering, shipping production-ready AI infrastructure and serving as both manager and individual contributor. Based in Hong Kong and with roots in Shandong University, he is drawn to innovation—his GitHub persona emphasizes a persistent curiosity for new ideas even when not reflected in high-profile OSS activity. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex research into practical systems that improve user personalization and retrieval at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Recommender System, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Recommender System, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning at Hong Kong Baptist UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Shandong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (58)
low-latency10
prometheus-exporter10
audio10
streaming10
server-side10
sctp9
ffmpeg9
multimedia9
ice9
flv9
mixer9
rtmp9
webrtc9
hevc9
streaming-api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hezila/kdd2015
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 1 branch in 2 months
hezila/hezila.github.io
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:82 pushes in 10 months
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