Hao Ma
Senior Director, GenAI Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Ma is a senior AI leader and researcher with a decade of experience building foundational generative models, recommender systems, and large-scale knowledge graph and QA systems across Google, Meta, Flip, and Microsoft Research. He has led large engineering and research organizations—up to 200 people—delivering LLM foundations, post-training systems, and industry-leading recommender infrastructure for products like Facebook News Feed and Instagram Reels. Earlier work at Microsoft Research produced core Knowledge Graph algorithms and the world’s largest scientific knowledge base that reshaped Bing into a semantic search engine. Author of 50+ papers and three ACM Test-of-Time awards, Hao combines deep academic rigor with product-driven execution and a track record of high-impact, widely covered work. Based in Seattle with a PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, he’s known for translating ML research into production at internet scale and for building teams that bridge self-supervised multimodal learning, efficient transformers, and user-safety systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, ChineseGithub contributions (3)
gabehao/slides
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
gabehao/haoma
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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