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, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Peking UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Cornell University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
python9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
tensorflow7
neural-network6
react6
ml5
android5
deep-neural-networks5
ios5
nextjs5
ui-components4
react-native4
mobile-first2
artificial-intelligence1
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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