Xianshun Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolXianshun Chen is a Staff Software Engineer and ML researcher with 9 years of experience building high-impact information retrieval, ranking, and AI systems across Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. He combines deep expertise in deep learning, NLP, computer vision, causal inference and optimization with practical engineering skills in cloud-native and big data solutions. His background includes academic research in agent-based modeling and evolutionary optimization (PhD, NTU), which he has applied to real-world decision-support and forecasting systems. Known for translating complex research into production-grade models, he has driven Database AI/ML modelization at Google after leading retrieval and ranking efforts at Microsoft and Amazon. Beyond core ML, he has full-stack architectural experience from e-commerce and analytics startups, giving him a rare blend of product, research and implementation fluency. Based in Kirkland, WA, he describes himself as a researcher-developer who thrives on pushing AI deeper into domain-specific, operational environments.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate with Honor Degree Science and Mathematics, Graduate with Honor Degree Science and Mathematics at Temasek Junior CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
61reputation
876reached
7answers
0questions
Github Skills (79)
breadth-first-search10
sentence10
kruskal-algorithm10
token-authetication10
classifier10
fasttext10
glove10
text-to-image10
keras-models10
convolutional-neural-networks10
word2vec10
audio-classification10
depth-first-search10
connected-components10
tarantool10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chen0040/java-leetcode
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:224 commits, 221 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
chen0040/js-regression
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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