Summary
Ming Zeng is a research scientist in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building language understanding, recommendation, and conversational AI systems across industry leaders including ByteDance, Amazon, and Meta. He led development of Amazon’s first LLM-powered shopping assistant and has deep expertise in GenAI, agents, and recommendation models informed by a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. His background spans both applied production work—shipping conversational experiences and recommender pipelines—and core research from internships at Google and Microsoft Research, giving him a rare blend of rigor and product focus. Fluent in turning research into scalable features, he also has early experience in behavioral biometrics and mobile ML, hinting at a broad curiosity for real-world signal integration.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen University
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at South China University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at National University of Singapore