Jifu Zhao
Machine Learning Engineer at Snap Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJifu Zhao is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience who combines a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from UIUC with deep expertise in data science, ML/DL, and applied statistics. Currently at Snap, he has built production-ready machine learning solutions after prior roles developing recommender systems, NLP models, and anomaly detection pipelines at Verizon Media and in academic research. His research work bridged nuclear sensor networks and ML—developing algorithms for radioactive source localization and CNNs for isotope identification—which reflects an unusual mix of domain physics and modern deep learning. He has a strong track record in scalable data pipelines, Hadoop-based recommender implementations, and practical model engineering from prototype to deployment. Based in Seattle, Jifu brings both rigorous quantitative training and hands-on product experience, often improving model performance through creative feature engineering and fine-tuning on large real-world datasets.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 3.93/4.30, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 3.93/4.30 at University of Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
21reputation
507reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (31)
r9
kaggle8
classification8
python8
lightgbm8
data-mining8
gradient8
parallel8
gradient-boosting7
machine-learning7
ranking7
decision-tree7
initialization6
high-performance6
embedding6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JifuZhao/Landmark-Recognition
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:54 commits, 8 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
JifuZhao/face-verification
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 31 pushes in 1 month
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