Summary
Ya-fang Shih is a Customer Solutions Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to ads and media-forensics problems. She previously improved ad performance as an Applied Scientist at Microsoft and built fraud detection, splice localization, OCR, and document-layout models at Verisk. Trained at National Taiwan University with a standout MS GPA (4.16/4.3), she combines strong academic foundations with production ML experience across research and industry settings. Ya-fang excels at turning complex data into actionable, revenue-driving solutions and has a track record of shipping robust models into operational pipelines. Based in Taiwan, she brings cross-disciplinary fluency between model development, data analysis, and customer-facing optimization. Notably, her career bridges deep research skills from Academia Sinica with pragmatic engineering that impacts global ad strategies.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Overall GPA: 4.16/4.3, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Overall GPA: 4.16/4.3 at National Taiwan University
High school, High school at Taipei First Girls Senior High School, Taipei, Taiwan
Chinese, English