Huiji Gao
KDD 2026 - ACM KDD 2026 Sponsorship Co-Chairs at Airbnb
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHuiji Gao is a senior engineering leader with 7+ years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, currently managing Relevance and Personalization engineering at Airbnb and co-chairing sponsorship for ACM KDD 2026. She previously led LinkedIn’s AI Algorithms Foundation, open-sourcing impactful frameworks like DeText and GDMix and overseeing teams building deep NLP, ranking, conversational AI and AutoML capabilities that power search and recommendation at scale. Her work spans research and product, delivering double-digit metric lifts in ads and search relevance while mentoring large cross-functional teams. Based in Sunnyvale, she combines academic rigor with practical systems-building and a track record of translating novel ML research into production-ready frameworks and conference leadership.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityMaster, Signal and Information Processing, Master, Signal and Information Processing at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChangzhou Senior High School
Github Skills (11)
classification10
ranking9
nlp9
natural-language-processing8
loss-functions7
deep-learning7
personalization6
deep-neural-networks5
jekyll3
github-pages1
document-classification1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nini2yoyo/huiji-gao.github.io
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:203 pushes in 1 year 8 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
nini2yoyo/huiji-gao
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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