Yan Zhao
Sr. Applied Scientist Personalization
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Zhao is a Senior Applied Scientist specializing in personalization and recommendation systems with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products at scale. Based in Bellevue, he designs and deploys contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, causal inference, representation learning and neural models (Transformers, Wide&Deep) to optimize content ranking and page experiences serving billions of Amazon customers. His background spans aerospace and industrial ML at Boeing, hands-on computer vision and autonomous systems training at Udacity, and academic rigor from a CMU master's in Machine Learning and NLP. Beyond production ML, he scouts early-stage ventures, reflecting a curiosity for emerging tech and practical product impact. Notably, he blends deep research techniques with production microservice engineering to move advanced algorithms from prototypes into high-throughput retail systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 3.4, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 3.4 at Southeast UniversityMaster’s Degree, Machine Learning and NLP, 3.8, Master’s Degree, Machine Learning and NLP, 3.8 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
crf2
java2
python2
keras1
cython1
big-data1
machine-learning1
distributed-systems1
spark1
hadoop1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
data-platform1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dongnanzhy/NineChapter
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
dongnanzhy/Super_Resolution
Aug 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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