Summary
Mingming Chen is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building large-scale recommendation, data, and ML platforms at Meta and Google, currently leading three sub-teams for Facebook Communities’ discovery and relevance. He founded and scaled Google's Visual Style Search & Recommendation Engine, driving 25+ high-impact launches and cross-org integrations that powered visual shopping experiences across Lens, Shopping, and Image Search. Mingming combines deep research roots (PhD work and 18+ peer-reviewed publications with hundreds of citations) with product-first execution, improving engagement and revenue metrics through modernized retrieval, indexing, and ML foundations. Known for unifying fragmented systems into standardized, scalable platforms, he focuses on developer velocity, data quality, and practical ML feature pipelines that unlock new ranking and recommendation opportunities. Based in Mountain View, he blends academic rigor with hands-on systems design to deliver measurable product growth at internet scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Beihang University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Central South University
English, Chinese