Hengda Shi
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolHengda Shi is a machine learning engineer with a decade of experience building production search and recommendation systems, currently on the search team at Meta after a multi-year tenure at ZipRecruiter. He led development of multi-task neural ranking models, position-debiasing techniques, and LLM-enabled job title discovery while driving search engine migrations and cross-team relevance interfaces. His work spans query understanding, ranking, and visual similarity models, grounded in an MS and BS in Computer Science from UCLA. Based in Mountain View, he blends research-minded experimentation with pragmatic deployment experience at scale, and has a knack for translating complex relevance problems into operational ML pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
gbm10
catboost10
kaggle10
parallel10
python10
microsoft10
classification10
r10
data-mining10
machine-learning10
gradient10
boosting10
gradient-boosting10
lightgbm10
ranking10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hengdashi/dotfiles
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:159 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
hengdashi/pnn
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Re-implementation of Progressive Neural Networks with PyTorch
Contributions:55 commits, 1 PR, 50 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pytorchre-implementationdeep-learningdeep-learprogressive-neural-networks
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