James Miao
Software Engineer III at Wayfair
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Miao is a seasoned software engineer and machine learning practitioner based in Toronto with 12 years of experience building production AI systems and search infrastructure for e-commerce. He holds a PhD in Information Retrieval, ML, and NLP and has led ML engineering teams to deliver large-scale AI search products, shipping over 40 features for enterprise clients. At AdeptMind he combined deep NLP modeling with system design—Python, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch—to turn research prototypes into robust SOA services, and he now continues that work at Wayfair. Early research and internships demonstrate a strong track record of improving model performance (e.g., boosting NER precision from ~60% to >90%) and creating novel similarity models yielding measurable gains. Pragmatic and research-grounded, he bridges academic rigor and production delivery, often uncovering subtle data issues that unlock system improvements.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer science and thoery, Master Computer science and thoery at Wuhan UniversityNanchang No.10 schoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Retrieval Machine Learning Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Retrieval Machine Learning Natural Language Processing at York University
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Github Skills (31)
data-science9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
jax8
wordnet8
neural-network7
normalization7
python-mode7
corpus7
unity-game-engine6
rope6
xcode6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AdeptMind/adept-recommendation-service
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Generic service to return recommendations for a user in the context of a given app
Contributions:7 reviews, 79 PRs, 170 pushes in 6 months
recommendationsgenericgeneric-service
james97/Lablucene
Sep 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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