Liling Yuan
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiling Yuan is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with eight years of experience building search and NLP-driven products that improve Bing relevance and user experience. She specializes in query sub-intent understanding, application-level NLP, LLM prompting/annotation, and backend training pipelines—having led the offline sub-intent ranker and refreshed a stale ranker pipeline that delivered one of Bing’s largest relevance gains in FY23. Comfortable across C#, Python, and web stacks, Liling blends data-driven experimentation with infrastructure work to translate user insights into measurable product and revenue improvements. Her background in crowd-powered research projects and full-stack academic systems informs a pragmatic approach to human-AI collaboration and crowdsourcing workflows. Based in Redmond, she pairs curiosity and humility with a track record of shipping impactful search innovations.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Chinese, English
Github Skills (1)
java10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yliling/Programming-Team
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
yliling/Info-Storage-and-Retrieve-Project
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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