Ni Lao
Staff Research Scientist at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNi Lao is a Staff Research Scientist in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building and productizing machine learning, knowledge graph, and natural language understanding technologies at Google and Apple, and as founder/Chief Scientist of a fast-growing voice AI startup. He combines hands-on research—publishing at top AI conferences and leading deep QA and semantic parsing work that powered Google's answer boxes—with strong technical leadership in shipping ML systems at scale to millions of devices. Trained at Tsinghua and Carnegie Mellon (PhD in CS), he has repeatedly bridged cutting-edge research and production engineering, from KG construction and confidence estimation to precomputed question–answer pipelines. Less obvious: he has experience founding and scaling an NLP-first company while sustaining academic collaborations and conference leadership, making him adept at turning novel research into real business value.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
dialect7
eta7
data-structures6
ranking6
functional-programming4
haskell4
jvm4
programming-language3
ios1
android1
ghc1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
noon99jaki/noon99jaki.github.io
Feb 2018 - Dec 2024
Ni Lao's Personal Website
Contributions:4 PRs, 71 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 11 months
noon99jaki/pra
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Repository for the Path-Ranking Algorithm
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
data-structuresrankingpathranking-algorithm
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