Jie Gao
Senior NLP Researcher at ZILO™
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJie Gao is a Senior NLP Researcher based in London with 11 years of hands-on industry experience and over 18 years working across academia and applied AI. He designs and ships large-scale, knowledge-intensive AI systems—LLMs, knowledge graphs and multimodal pipelines—that power decision support, semantic search and misinformation detection for enterprise and financial domains. A pragmatic researcher-engineer, Jie has published in top venues (AAAI, ICLR, KDD) while translating PhD-level innovations into production using PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face and cloud-native CI/CD practices. He has led cross-functional teams and mentored engineers on human-and-model-in-the-loop workflows, combining graph databases, CUDA-accelerated models, and OSINT methods to automate evidence retrieval and fact-checking. Notably, Jie moved from academic projects (early rumor detection, Europeana search services) to architecting agentic LLM systems for asset and wealth management, showing a rare ability to bridge scientific rigor with operational impact.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Technology, BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Technology at Yancheng institute of technologyGoodAgileMsc (Graduated with Merit) Web Technology-Computer Science, Msc (Graduated with Merit) Web Technology-Computer Science at University of SouthamptonPhD candidate (part-time) Computer Science, PhD candidate (part-time) Computer Science at The University of SheffieldCMI Level 5 in Management, CMI Level 5 in Management at Ashorne Hill Management College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (66)
feature-extraction10
text-analytics10
terminology10
computational-linguistics10
solr10
nlp10
textrank10
natural-language-processing10
text-mining10
parsing10
fasttext9
python9
machine-learning9
classification9
sequence-to-sequence8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jerrygaoLondon/jerrygaoLondon.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jun 2025
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
jerrygaoLondon/jgtextrank
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
jgtextrank: Yet another Python implementation of TextRank
Contributions:34 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
pythontextrankparsingnatural-naturallanguage-processingnlp
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