Xiao Yan
Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization GenAI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiao Yan is a Machine Learning Engineer with 9 years of experience building production-scale recommendation, generation, and personalization systems at major tech companies including Meta, Instagram, Nextdoor and LinkedIn. He blends deep academic rigor (PhD-level research and multiple peer-reviewed papers) with product impact—leading teams to ship GenAI-driven notification and ad monetization models that produced double-digit lifts in engagement and conversion for tens of millions of users. His expertise spans NLU, autoregressive generation, multi-task learning, GNNs, distillation, and learning-to-rank, and he has operationalized large Llama/GPT-style finetuning and generator-evaluator pipelines in production. Not obvious from titles: he has a strong track record of mentorship and technical leadership (multiple promoted reports and several patents) and has translated clinical NLP research into scalable retrieval and graph-embedding systems early in his career. Located in Mountain View, he focuses on aligning ML initiatives with business metrics to drive measurable growth.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Non-degree Program, Non-degree Program at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Science at Peking UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (42)
stock10
vpn10
trading10
router10
lantern10
matplotlib9
pandas9
censorship-circumvention9
desktop-application9
bitcoin9
linux9
accelerator9
machine-learning9
quantitative-trading9
python-requests9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yxyClub/WwwE
Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:253 commits, 220 pushes, 4 comments in 3 years 10 months
vue
iAIClub/LP3THW
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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