Ming Chen
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMing Chen is an experienced ML engineer and researcher with 12 years building production-grade AI systems, currently on the Reinforcement Learning team at OpenAI. He has led research and engineering teams at ByteDance/TikTok focused on ads, recommendation, and search ranking—pioneering AutoML, neural architecture search, multitask and uplift modeling, and multi-modal solutions. At Google Brain he helped launch Cloud AutoML Tables, bringing AutoML for tabular data into production, and earlier work spans search quality and low-latency networking research. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines deep research instincts with product-first engineering, often translating novel algorithms into scalable pipelines. A background that spans top academic programs (Peking University, Cornell) and high-impact internships suggests he thrives at the intersection of theory, systems, and real-world deployment.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4.00 Ranked 6/131, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.78/4.00 Ranked 6/131 at Peking UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Cornell University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (20)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
react5
android5
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
world-of-warcraft5
ios4
react-native4
nextjs4
lua3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
velicue/contestify
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
velicue/cs5356
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
design-systemscurriculumengineering
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