Summary
Jiankun Lu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Singapore with eight years of experience building NLP and search systems for large-scale consumer products. He has driven query understanding and spelling correction across Apple’s App Store, Music, TV, Podcasts and Books platforms, moving from research to production-grade models. Prior roles at ByteDance’s AI Lab and SAP sharpened his expertise in NLP algorithms, recommendation, and domain-specific embeddings. A self-motivated learner who balances analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering, he also spent time at Stanford as an exchange student, reflecting a global outlook on leadership and collaboration. Outside work, his Github bio — "coding..eating..sleeping" — hints at a disciplined, hands-on engineer who keeps shipping improvements in quiet, consistent ways.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University
Exchange student Global Leadership Program, Exchange student Global Leadership Program at Stanford University
English, Chinese