Wotao Yin
Scientist And Principal Engineer, Director Of Decision Intelligence Lab at Alibaba Group US
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWotao Yin is a scientist and principal engineer who leads Alibaba Group US’s Decision Intelligence Lab, bringing over a decade of experience at the intersection of large-scale optimization, distributed computing, and machine learning. Previously a professor at UCLA and faculty at Rice, he developed and taught cutting-edge algorithms for convex and non-convex optimization and guided numerous students while earning top honors like the Morningside Gold Medal and NSF/Sloan awards. He has a PhD in Operations Research from Columbia and a long track record of translating mathematical theory into practical systems for AI training and large-scale deployments. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering leadership to drive decision intelligence in production settings.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Nanjing UniversityPhD, Operations Research, PhD, Operations Research at Columbia University
Github Skills (10)
stochastic7
toolbox5
sublime5
parallel4
async4
sublime-text4
latex3
typesetting2
splitting2
asynchronous1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wotaoyin/cf_paper
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 19 PRs, 29 pushes in 6 months
wotaoyin/LargeScaleBookSlides
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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