Wenxiang Chen
Machine Learning Engineer at Snap
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolWenxiang Chen is a Machine Learning Engineer with 15 years of experience, currently leading LLM, embedding-based retrieval, and query understanding efforts for search and recommendation at Snapchat. Previously an engineering lead on LinkedIn’s Hirer AI team, he built production AI solutions that contributed to over half of LinkedIn’s revenue and delivered double-digit lifts on key business metrics. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence with 12 publications, a best paper award and 450+ citations, and is an inventor on seven US ML patents. Based in San Jose, Wenxiang blends deep research rigor with product-focused deployment, routinely translating advanced models into measurable business impact. Notably, his background spans academia and high-scale consumer systems, giving him unusual fluency across experimentation, IP strategy, and production ML at internet scale.
15 years of coding experience
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, 3.875/4, PhD, Artificial Intelligence, 3.875/4 at Colorado State UniversityBEng, Computer Science, BEng, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaHigh School, Science and Technology, High School, Science and Technology at Quanzhou No.1 High School
min nan, English, Chinese
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Github contributions (5)
qzcwx/CEC2010SS-LSGO-Benchmarks-CPP
Mar 2011 - Jul 2013
Contributions:36 commits in 2 years 4 months
qzcwx/NK-generator
Sep 2011 - May 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 8 months
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