Rui Wang
Machine Learning Engineer at Uber
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Wang is a Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of experience building production ML systems for real-time consumer targeting and incentives at scale, currently applying causal inference, uplift modeling, and foundation-model techniques at Uber. He previously delivered large-scale recommendation and ads relevance systems at LinkedIn, including two-tower targeting, embedding ANN search, and in-session BERT entity recommendation. Rui combines a strong academic foundation—a PhD in Physics and an MS in Biostatistics—with hands-on experience in sequence transformers, merchant ranking, and budget personalization to bridge rigorous statistical modeling and engineering for live marketplaces. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a rare blend of physics-trained quantitative rigor and practical ML productization, with background in healthcare and nanotech research that informs his multidisciplinary approach.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Jiangsu Yancheng Middle SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Nanjing UniversityMaster of Science - MS Biostatistics, Master of Science - MS Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at Vanderbilt University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (32)
neuroevolution10
trailblazer10
poet10
reinforcement-learning10
neat10
machine-learning9
gymnasium9
ai9
q-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
evolution7
multiplication6
co-simulation5
multicore5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
uber-research/poet
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer (POET) and Enhanced POET
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
poetopen-endedtrailblazer
uber-research/deep-neuroevolution
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Deep Neuroevolution
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 11 months
deep-learningreinforcement-learningneuroevolutionmachine-learningdeep-neuroevolution
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