Jimmy Ren
Assistant Professor at Lingnan University
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Ren is an assistant professor and seasoned AI researcher with 11 years of industry and academic experience applying deep learning to computational imaging, decision support, and large-scale systems. Formerly an executive director and senior research leader at SenseTime, he led cross-functional teams to productize generative AI and imaging technologies and has published widely at top venues like TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS and ICML. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from City University of Hong Kong and combines rigorous research with hands-on backend engineering—evident from active open-source work optimizing proxy crawling and WeChat/Taobao cashback services. Comfortable spanning roles from algorithm design to production systems, he is multilingual (Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, English), a Certified Scrum Master, and brings a practical, resource-conscious approach to building scalable AI products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering at East China Normal UniversityPh.D. Information Systems, Ph.D. Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong
English, Chinese, Shanghainese, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
apim10
json10
python10
python-multiprocessing10
proxy10
proxy-server10
webscraping10
gevent10
api10
performance-optimization10
proxies10
http-request10
multi-process10
multiprocessing10
concurrency10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xsren/wx_taobao_fanli
May 2017 - Mar 2019
微信 淘宝 返利
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily focused on developing backend logic for a WeChat-based Taobao cashback application. Their contributions involved creating a class (`Alimama`) to interact with the Alimama API for retrieving product details, generating affiliate links, and handling user login via QR code scanning. The user also worked on integrating a third-party service for retrieving URLs from Taobao "kouling" (口令) codes, and setting up threads to prevent the user cookie from expiring. Furthermore, the user made updates to the code to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of Taobao, including changes to the URL structures.
weixinpythonwechatpython3lxml
qiyeboy/IPProxyPool
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
IPProxyPool代理池项目，提供代理ip
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily focused on optimizing the proxy pool project. Their contributions included limiting the speed and memory usage of the proxy validation and crawling processes. They made several changes to the `Validator.py`, `IPProxy.py`, `ProxyCrawl.py`, and `config.py` files, indicating a focus on improving performance and resource management. Additionally, they addressed bugs and fixed type errors within the codebase.
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