Jeffrey Mei is a Staff Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience applying deep learning to real-world problems, currently improving personalized music recommendations at SiriusXM/Pandora. He has a strong research-to-production track record—building lightweight transformers for next-item recommendation at Wayfair that increased conversion and presenting at ACM RecSys—while earlier earning a PhD applying convnets to infer sea ice thickness from imagery and conducting Antarctic fieldwork. Jeffrey bridges scientific rigor and engineering scale, implementing distributed multi-GPU training and interpretable attention visualizations for product teams. Based in Somerville, MA, he combines domain expertise in geoscience and recommender systems, bringing a practical penchant for visualizing model behavior and shipping repeatable ML pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, cum laude, Physics, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, cum laude, Physics, Mathematics at New York University Abu Dhabi
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oceanographic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oceanographic Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oceanographic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oceanographic Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CIE A-Level, CIE A-Level at Westlake Boys High School
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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