Summary
Rui Wang is a research scientist at Meta with seven years of experience applying machine learning and systems engineering to high-impact products like Ads Ranking, People You May Know, and Advertiser Integrity. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Dartmouth, where his research blended mobile sensing, statistical modeling, and scalable data pipelines to predict mental health outcomes and behavioral patterns. At Meta he has led cross-functional teams, revamped ranking mechanisms to boost engagement, and deployed GNNs, event-sequence models, and multi-instance learning to detect abusive advertisers. His background includes building end-to-end sensing and backend infrastructures, signal-processing systems at Verily, and production recommender and search services at Tencent, reflecting a rare mix of research rigor and production-grade software craftsmanship. Based in Seattle, Rui is equally comfortable mentoring junior researchers and shipping large-scale ML systems, and he often bridges clinical collaborators and engineering teams to turn domain problems into deployable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Master Wireless Networks, Master Wireless Networks at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese