Summary
Xiao Han is an Applied Scientist with a decade of experience blending academic rigor and industry impact, currently working at Twitch/Amazon after completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Utah State University. His research and engineering focus spans anomaly detection, fairness-aware ML, root cause analysis, and reinforcement learning, with hands-on experience applying PPO and A2C to improve anomaly detection F1 scores and contributing to a patent during a Nokia Bell Labs internship. Xiao holds dual master’s degrees in Computer Science and Data Analytics and started his technical foundations with a CS and Finance double bachelor’s from Shandong University, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and quantitative business sense. Based in Oakland, he’s eager to bring his LLM and RL expertise to game, banking, or software companies, and is known for collaborative problem-solving and a relentless drive to learn and iterate.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.91/4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.91/4 at Utah State University
Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics, 3.76/4, Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics, 3.76/4 at The George Washington University
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 3.63/4, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 3.63/4 at Oregon State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Shandong University
English, Chinese