Vicki Huang
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
California, United States
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Top SchoolVicki Huang is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in California with a decade of experience specializing in advertising and recommendation systems. She has led production ML work across Tencent, Alibaba, SmartNews, and now Pinterest, driving oCPA initiatives, CVR optimization with multi-task learning, targeting expansion, and bidding strategy improvements. Vicki built user representation models that capture long- and short-term interests and reliably boosted Ads Ranking CTR and Push Ranking performance. She is fluent in Python, Java, C++, Scala and SQL, and proficient with TensorFlow, Spark, Hive, Airflow and AWS, enabling end-to-end model development and deployment. Notably, her background combines deep experimentation on delayed-feedback conversion problems with practical embedding solutions for new-user cold starts. Her experience bridges research-grade modeling and production ad systems, making her effective at translating complex ML into measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (1)
experiences8
Github contributions (1)
making360/making360
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:245 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
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