Summary
Ian Chiu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in New York with nine years of experience building ranking and recommendation systems at Meta, Instagram, and Carnegie Mellon. He currently helps modernize the ML stack for personalized recommendations across mobile and VR on Meta’s Horizons Relevance team, and previously owned product and ranking work for person-to-business and business-to-business recommendations. Ian’s background blends production ML for high-throughput social products like Reels and Creator Ranking with academic research on neural architectures and coded compute from CMU. Comfortable moving between hands-on model and system work, he pairs strong algorithmic foundations (Carnegie Mellon, math + CS) with product-minded deployment experience at scale. An under-the-radar strength is his history of maintaining and modernizing legacy scientific code, showing he can bridge research prototypes into robust, modern pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bellarmine College Preparatory
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Chinese