Ruey-cheng Chen
Machine Learning Engineer at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRuey-cheng Chen is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Melbourne with 18 years of experience specializing in NLP, information retrieval, and search/recommender systems. He has moved research into production across roles at RMIT, Academia Sinica, SEEK, and currently Canva, building neural ranking, counterfactual evaluation, query suggestion, and cascade ranking solutions. His work blends academic rigor (PhD-level research in question answering and learning-to-rank) with practical engineering for large-scale, user-facing systems. Notable strengths include domain adaptation for usability, bias correction toward fresh content, and cost-aware cascaded ranking—areas that show he optimizes for both quality and operational efficiency. He maintains a publication track record and resources at rueycheng.com, reflecting ongoing engagement with the research community. His profile signals a practitioner who bridges cutting-edge IR research and product-impactful ML engineering.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science and Information Engineering, PhD, Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University
Github Skills (19)
binding8
phonetics8
computational-linguistics8
acl8
translation7
cascade7
natural-language-processing5
chinese-simplified5
retrieval5
python5
ranking3
dump3
wikipedia3
wikipedia-dump3
exporter2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rueycheng/pruning_retrievability
Aug 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
rmit-ir/SummaryRank
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 28 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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