Xu Miao is a Chief Scientist and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building ML/AI systems that accelerate innovation across industries, from enterprise conversational agents to financial forecasting. He has led AI teams and startups (co-founding Beluga Intelligence and Neva.ai) and held senior research and engineering roles at LinkedIn and Microsoft, blending product-facing engineering with deep research expertise. Xu’s work spans end-to-end systems: distributed online learning, large-scale probabilistic models, and applied deep learning for semi-structured signals and personalization. Based in Mountain View, he combines a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington with hands-on system architecture and deployment experience, often turning research ideas into production-grade pipelines. A less obvious strength is his knack for applying advanced optimization and probabilistic techniques (ADMMs, large-margin graphical models) to practical, high-stakes problems like portfolio optimization and real-time recommendation.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
B.Eng Electronic Engineering, B.Eng Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
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