Mengting Wan
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMengting Wan is a senior research scientist in Seattle with a decade of experience applying machine learning, NLP, and recommender systems across industry and academia. After earning a PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego and earlier degrees in statistics, she held research internships at Microsoft and product-focused ML roles at Airbnb before joining Microsoft's Office of Applied Research. Her work blends rigorous research—evidenced by strong publication record and a Microsoft PhD research fellowship—with hands-on product ML, including conversational AI and recommendation systems. Comfortable moving models from prototype to production, she uniquely bridges deep statistical training with applied engineering for customer-facing intelligence. Currently focused on advancing ML-driven personalization and language understanding, she actively seeks roles that leverage both research depth and real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics at Peking UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
algorithm10
kernel-density10
recommender-system9
proc9
recommendation-system9
computational-social-science8
machine-learning8
data-mining8
natural-language-processing8
marketing6
latex5
python4
visualization3
crawling2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MengtingWan/mengtingwan.github.io
May 2019 - Mar 2026
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
MengtingWan/chainRec
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley, "Item Recommendation on Monotonic Behavior Chains", in Proc. of 2018 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'18), Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 2018.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
procrecommender-systemmachine-learningdata-mining
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