Summary
Shen Huang is a machine learning engineering leader with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, now managing ML engineering at Paylocity in Sunnyvale. He has a proven track record building production AI/ML systems across HR, e-commerce, search and personalization at companies including Glassdoor, LinkedIn, eBay and Microsoft Research. Shen combines deep research roots with product-focused execution—shipping scalable recommendation, SEO and conversational AI solutions that influenced millions of users and revenue-generating systems. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to bridge research and production, designing experiment frameworks and architectures that reduce network effects and improve interpretability for non-technical stakeholders. Notably, his LinkedIn work generated billions of cross-page links to boost organic traffic and his IBM projects distilled 1TB+ unstructured data into a deployed travel chatbot. Based in the Bay Area, he excels at turning complex ML research into pragmatic, high-impact products.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese