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Top SchoolMinfa Wang is an experienced machine learning and software engineer with 11 years building production ML systems and research-driven models from Mountain View. After contributing to YouTube search ranking and BERT-based semantic retrieval at Google, Minfa led ML engineering at Waymo focusing on foundation and autoregressive models, robustness, safety, and constrained planning. Currently building something new at a stealth company, they bridge deep research and production deployment, with an MS from Caltech and an AI certificate from Stanford underpinning their work. Comfortable across full-stack development and machine intelligence, Minfa previously led engineering at a stealth startup and performed text-mining research at Caltech. Colleagues describe them as a pragmatic researcher who turns complex probabilistic and planning ideas into reliable, scalable systems. Their background suggests a particular strength in making advanced ML models work under real-world safety and operational constraints.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California
California Institute of Technology
Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University