Louis Wang
ML Tech Lead, Core Recommendations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Wang is an ML tech lead specializing in recommendation systems, LLMs, and multi-agent AI with nine years of experience across high-scale consumer and enterprise products. He currently leads core recommendations at Netflix, driving homepage generative ranking with efficient linear transformers, LLM-derived user profiles, and multimodal content embeddings. Previously at Snap he built generative retrieval, RAG pipelines, and multimodal LLMs for content discovery while optimizing transformer kernels for production efficiency. His background includes financial NLP and GNN work at Capital Group, product recommendation at Best Buy, and an early entrepreneurial track record as a co-founder who grew a platform to multimillion RMB revenue. Trained in CS and data science at Georgia Tech and Emory, he blends research-grade model design with pragmatic infra and ML optimization to ship real-world recommender systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges deep model innovation and production constraints, often surfacing non-obvious gains from model architecture and sequence engineering.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Machine Learning at Emory UniversityBachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at Sun Yat-sen University
Chinese, engilsh, Japanese
Github Skills (17)
coreference10
stylegan10
text-summarization9
distilbert9
clip9
summarization7
machine-learning7
multimodal7
korean-nlp7
deep-learning7
computer-vision7
sentence-similarity5
nlp5
bert5
pytorch5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Lou1sWang/Recs_Search_Ads_papers
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Lou1sWang/deepneighbor
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:61 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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