Linhong Zhu
Director Of Engineering at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLinhong Zhu is an AI/ML engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently directs Meta’s Feed Ranking & Modeling organization from San Francisco, driving technical strategy that contributed 20–30% of Facebook App topline growth. He led an LLM-native transformation that replaced heuristic ranking with agentic, natural-language-driven recommendation actions and institutionalized responsible AI governance across a global org of 80+ engineers and 200+ partners. Prior roles include directing search and personalization at JD.com for 300M+ users and founding ML work for Pinterest Search, giving him deep product-facing expertise in large-scale relevance and personalization. Academically trained with a PhD in Computer Engineering, he published 20+ top-tier papers with 2.5k+ citations, blending research rigor with production impact. Known for building leadership bench strength, he couples executive-level roadmap advocacy with hands-on systems thinking to secure multi-year AI investments. A less obvious strength is his track record of unifying cross-continental research and engineering teams to accelerate delivery on billion-dollar business metrics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B Eng., Computer Science, B Eng., Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaPh.D., Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Github Skills (15)
snapshots9
temporal8
sequence8
connected7
graph6
clique6
social-network-analysis5
in-memory4
enumeration4
entity1
pytorch1
machine-learning1
nlp1
deep-learning1
embedding1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
linhongseba/ContentMapEquation
Apr 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
linhongseba/Temporal-Network-Embedding
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 7 months
sequencetemporalspacessnapshotsdynamic-graph
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