Wen Tang
Applied Researcher Manager at eBay
California, United States
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Top SchoolWen Tang is an applied research leader and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with a decade of experience turning machine learning research into production-grade multi-modal AI systems. Based in California and now managing applied research at eBay, she has driven major improvements in visual search and embeddings—delivering up to 43% better top-1 matching while shrinking storage by orders of magnitude and beating a leading cloud offering. Her background spans theory (sparse dictionary learning, zero-shot image classification) to large-scale engineering (distributed training, on-the-fly embedding pipelines, multi-cluster resource management). Wen has a track record of launching industry-academic collaborations and challenges (CVPR workshops) and building practical data products— from functional zone discovery to high-accuracy web content extraction—often improving accuracy and efficiency substantially. Notably, she blends deep mathematical training with hands-on system design, enabling both novel algorithms and the infrastructure to scale them.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityVisiting Scholar, Visiting Scholar at CentraleSupélecBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Fayetteville State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at East China University of Science and TechnologyGithub contributions (5)
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 10 months
wtang0512/Replicated-Softmax-Model
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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