Xiaochuan Fan
Machine Learning Engineer, Tiktok Search US at TikTok
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaochuan Fan is a Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience applying computer vision and multi-modal ML to real-world products, currently shaping search relevance and content understanding for TikTok Search US. He previously led multi-modal search, image recognition, and AR/VR initiatives at JD.com and developed efficient detection and low-shot learning methods for HD mapping and autonomous driving at HERE. A Ph.D. in Computer Vision from the University of South Carolina, he has published over ten papers in top venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, KDD, IJCV, SIGIR), bridging deep research with production systems. Known for practical innovations—such as dual-source CNNs for pose estimation and data-driven 3D pose models—he combines rigorous academic foundations with hands-on delivery of scalable, multimodal search and recommendation features. Based in Mountain View, he brings domain depth in short-video and e-commerce search plus a knack for turning cutting-edge research into product impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering Computer Vision at University of South Carolina
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
julia5
python5
javascript5
mutation5
portable5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
mxnet4
golang4
data-science4
scala4
scheduler4
neural-network3
dataflow3
dep2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
efan3000/muisc
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
efan3000/plcr
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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