Xin Shen
Sr. Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products (Amazon Ads)
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Shen is a senior applied scientist with 8 years of experience building production ML systems at Amazon, currently leading Sponsored Products for Amazon Ads after driving high-impact personalization and recommendation work in P13N that generated over $250M in sales. He combines deep technical expertise in CV, NLP, LLMs, and hybrid transfer-learning with practical engineering—shipping real-time intent-aware recommenders and novel complementary recommendation algorithms that improved relevance to human-level quality. Xin’s background in mechatronics and robotics (MS from Carnegie Mellon) informs a pragmatic approach to data generation and model calibration—he invented automated labeling techniques and robotics-assisted ground-truthing for vision tasks. Known for mentoring interns, publishing research and securing patents, he pairs rigorous research instincts with strong project management and cross-functional communication. Colleagues describe him as tenacious, fast at self-learning, and willing to “escape the comfort zone” to translate cutting-edge models into measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityMaster's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
viewpager8
indicator7
counting7
tablayout6
android-library5
android4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ouchangxin/gitskills
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
ouchangxin/GitLeanrn
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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