Ning Gao
Senior Data Scientist
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNing Gao is a Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft with seven years of applied research and production experience and a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Maryland. He blends deep academic training in AI with hands-on engineering, moving models from research into robust, testable services. At Microsoft he has progressed from data scientist to senior roles, focusing on reliability, evaluation, and scalable deployment of language and information systems. Ning also contributes to high-profile open-source efforts—improving test infrastructure for Microsoft's Bot Framework—to raise code quality and coverage in conversational AI tooling. Based in Bellevue, he pairs rigorous test-driven development practices with a penchant for bridging research insights to product impact. Colleagues describe him as methodical, detail-oriented, and effective at turning complex ML research into dependable production features.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Peking UniversityThe University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (7)
net10
asp-net10
bot-framework10
dotnet10
testing10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Welcome to the Bot Framework SDK for .NET repository, which is the home for the libraries and packages that enable developers to build sophisticated bot applications using .NET.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 19 pushes in 21 days
Contributions summary:Ning primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure for the botbuilder-dotnet project. Their contributions included adding new tests for various entities, such as phonenumbers and datetimes, and updating existing test files to read properties and cover new functionality. The user's work involved modifying and expanding test suites within the project, likely to improve code coverage and maintain the quality of the bot framework. This demonstrates an emphasis on test-driven development and ensuring the reliability of the .NET bot framework.
dotnetsdk-frameworkdotnet-core2botsdk
ninggao/ninggao.github.io
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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