Ning Hu
Founder And CEO at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolNing Hu is a founder and seasoned technology executive with nearly two decades of experience building large-scale consumer and enterprise products spanning machine learning, information retrieval, computational advertising, multimedia, and infrastructure. As founder and CEO of Gensmo he’s pioneering AI-driven fashion search, and previously served as Group VP at Alibaba overseeing user growth, ads, platform, and merchant operations for one of China’s largest instant retail businesses. He co-founded and led MediaV to market leadership in programmatic advertising and later scaled ads R&D and AI ranking at Qihoo 360, consistently delivering revenue and performance gains. A Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. with deep product instincts, he blends research-grade technical expertise with hands-on startup and executive experience, often translating advanced ML into practical monetization and growth levers. Beyond product and engineering, he advises CMU’s School of Computer Science on commercialization and ecosystem strategy, reflecting a rare mix of academic credibility and operator’s grit.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng., Computer Science & Technology, B.Eng., Computer Science & Technology at Tsinghua UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
11reputation
235reached
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Github Skills (17)
media-manager10
campus10
social-media10
twitter9
facebook9
django9
python8
react7
journalism6
documentum6
diaspora6
internal-tools6
nextjs5
chrome-extension2
sandbox2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ning-hu/Fun-Projects
Apr 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
ning-hu/killboard-bot
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years
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