Yan Xu
Director Of Engineering - Machine Learning at Rokt
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYan Xu is a Director of Engineering specializing in machine learning with 13 years of experience building production ML systems across adtech, social networks, cloud infrastructure, and transportation modeling. He currently leads ML engineering at Rokt, driving advertiser growth through applied ML, and previously scaled ML efforts at Facebook and managed ads-focused ML teams back at Rokt. His background blends rigorous research—holding a PhD in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore—with hands-on roles at AWS on networking automation and capacity modeling, reflecting a strong systems-oriented approach to ML in production. Yan’s career shows a recurring theme of translating academic modeling and simulation work into robust, high-impact engineering solutions for real-time decisioning and prediction. Based in New York, he pairs strategic leadership with deep technical fluency, often bridging research insights and product delivery in high-throughput environments.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Harbin Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (56)
r9
simulator9
kaggle8
classification8
python8
pandas8
lightgbm8
data-mining8
gradient8
parallel8
visualizations7
manipulation7
gradient-boosting7
machine-learning7
frame7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xuyannus/traffic_simulation_on_gpu
Jan 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:56 commits in 4 months
xuyannus/CheatSheet
Oct 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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