Honglei Liu
Co-Founder & CTO at Tofu
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHonglei Liu is a seasoned AI and machine learning leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale, production ML systems and data platforms across top tech companies and startups. As Co-Founder and CTO of Tofu, he now focuses on automating top-of-funnel growth for B2B marketing while drawing on deep product and infra expertise honed at Twitter, Facebook, Fast, and Affirm. He led teams that delivered mission-critical knowledge graph and assistant systems—powering billions of real-time predictions and contributing materially to revenue—and co-founded open-source projects used to drive tens of billions of decisions per day. Honglei combines research pedigree (PhD-level CS training) with hands-on engineering, shipping on-device NLP, reinforcement learning, recommendation, search, and streaming infrastructures at scale. Colleagues would note his rare mix of research rigor, product-first delivery, and the ability to turn complex ML research into reliable, revenue-generating services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Northeastern University (CN)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
23reputation
478reached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (34)
relation10
relation-extraction9
python9
machine-learning9
extraction9
deep-learning9
nlp8
sentence-similarity8
tensorflow8
similarity8
neural-network8
data-science7
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
embedding7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ppuliu/ppuliu.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
ppuliu/GloRE
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
Global Relation Embedding for Relation Extraction
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 6 months
nlpextractionsimilaritysentence-similarityrelation-extraction
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