Summary
Liangjie Hong is a seasoned AI engineering leader with over a decade of experience building ML and research-driven products across major tech companies. Currently VP of Engineering, AI at Nokia, he focuses on bringing transformative AI innovations to telecommunications after leading LinkedIn’s Talent Marketplace AI team of nearly 60 engineers impacting multi-billion-dollar business outcomes. His background spans directing data science and ML organizations at Etsy and Yahoo Research, where he shipped advances in personalization, search, recommendation and conversational systems with publications and patents. He combines deep academic training (PhD, Lehigh University) with hands-on product delivery, growing teams from small research groups to large engineering organizations. Known for bridging research and production, he has repeatedly turned cutting-edge models into scalable features that improve discovery and matching for millions of users. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a rare mix of publication-quality research, cross-functional leadership, and domain expertise in talent and e-commerce systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Lehigh University
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Beijing University of Chemical Technology