Kelong Mao
Senior Research Engineer at JD.COM
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKelong Mao is a Senior Research Engineer with nine years of experience building ML-driven products and mobile apps, currently working on shopping agent and recommendation research at JD.com. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Renmin University and completed graduate work at Tsinghua, combining deep academic training with hands-on industry impact across Amazon, TikTok, Tencent, and WeChat. His internships focused on applying LLMs and graph neural networks to search, ads, personalized video retrieval, and retrosynthesis, demonstrating a strong cross-domain applied research skillset. A developer familiar with iOS, Flutter, and Java, he bridges production engineering and research experimentation to ship features end-to-end. Based in Denver, he blends large-company product experience with a researcher's curiosity, often applying generative models to recommendation and shopping use cases.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science at Remin University of chinaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Nankai UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science and Technology, Master's degree, Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
MaShengKui/DXDoctor
May 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
GitHubMSK/MaskBase
Sep 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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