Rui Yan
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Atlassian
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Yan is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging research and product at companies including Amazon, Microsoft, and Atlassian. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has shipped production ML systems spanning delivery time prediction, intent understanding, LLM-powered chatbots, and multi-lingual entity linking for Bing local search. Rui combines deep expertise in NLP, knowledge graphs, and streaming/graph-based reasoning with a track record of measurable impact—improving search relevance globally and delivering large efficiency gains in streaming analytics during his PNNL work. He has filed multiple patents and published peer-reviewed work, demonstrating an ability to move ideas from prototype to production at scale. Based in Bellevue, WA, Rui pairs academic rigor with pragmatic engineering, often designing training and inference pipelines that balance accuracy, fairness, and deployment resilience.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Automation and Control Theory, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Automation and Control Theory at Harbin Engineering UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
semantics6
minimax5
jina5
javascript4
css4
nano4
nlp4
react4
shacl3
referee3
visualization3
linked-data2
data-management2
graph2
langchain2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
raymondino/SequentialStreamReasoningArchitecture
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
raymondino/SoccerOffside-StreamReasoningUseCase
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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