Tao Zhuang
Senior Staff Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba.com
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolTao Zhuang is a Senior Staff Algorithm Engineer with a decade of experience building search and recommendation systems at Alibaba, where he has spent seven years optimizing Taobao Search ranking and more recently shaping the "Guess what you like" homepage recommendations. He holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing from the Institute of Automation, CAS, and began his career there as an assistant researcher, blending deep academic research with large-scale industrial deployment. Tao’s work focuses on improving user experience and commercial value through information retrieval, search ranking and NLP techniques, and he maintains a research presence with publications indexed on Google Scholar. Based in Beijing, he combines rigorous research instincts with product-minded engineering to deliver algorithms that drive real user engagement at massive scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, School of Automatic Control, Bachelor's degree, School of Automatic Control at Shandong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Github Skills (138)
adafruit10
commander10
javascript10
html10
samd2110
electron10
i2c10
nodejs10
css10
minimist10
chrome10
software-design9
bluepill9
pong9
database9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kr1sten0/emoji-query-menubar
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
2yuri/forum
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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