Summary
Junbo Yu is a senior research engineer and tech leader based in Beijing with 10+ years driving paid-search and ads retrieval systems at Baidu and Yahoo. He specializes in large-scale Hadoop programming and machine learning for click prediction and ads retrieval, translating user behavior and inter-ad externalities into production models. Holding a PhD from Tsinghua in Electronic Design Automation, he blends deep academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to ship scalable data-mining pipelines. At Baidu he focuses on mobile ads retrieval, applying offline and online modeling to improve relevance and monetization. Known for bridging research and product, he leads cross-functional teams to operationalize complex ML models in high-traffic environments. Quietly multilingual in research and production tooling, he brings both algorithmic depth and systems-savvy execution to ad-tech challenges.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Northeast YuCai School
bachelor, Computer Science, bachelor, Computer Science at Northeastern University (CN)
phD, Computer Science, Electronic Design Automation, phD, Computer Science, Electronic Design Automation at Tsinghua University