Hailing Cheng
Senior Staff AI Engineer at LinkedIn
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHailing Cheng is a Senior Staff AI Engineer based in California with over a decade of experience building production-grade ML and computer vision systems across top tech firms including LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Yahoo, and ASML. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in 2D semiconductor experimental physics, she brings deep quantitative rigor to applied problems in CV, ML, DL, and NLP, translating research-grade ideas into scalable products. At LinkedIn she has progressed from Staff to Senior Staff roles driving platform-level AI initiatives, and earlier roles at Facebook and TikTok honed her expertise in high-throughput, real-world ML systems. An algorithm-focused engineer and avid coder, she pairs technical breadth with interests in reading and music, and maintains a curiosity about both image recognition and language technologies that informs cross-domain solutions.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, 2D Semiconductor Experimental Physics, Ph.D, 2D Semiconductor Experimental Physics at University of MichiganPhysics, Physics at Brown UniversityMS, Theoretical Physics, MS, Theoretical Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
hashcode10
face9
hash9
ransac8
image-retrieval8
retrieval8
robust6
fundamental-matrix6
pattern-recognition6
spoofing6
deep-learning5
pattern5
cut5
caffe4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhleternity/interviewAlgorithmsCollection
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:113 commits, 111 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
zhleternity/videoTrack
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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