Summary
Yang Peng is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Sunnyvale with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and three years of post-PhD industry experience driving production AI systems across major tech companies. He has led ML and AI efforts at Meta, Google, and Walmart Global Tech, building LLM-powered agents, AI media generation, and large-scale recommendation and advertising models. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines materials informatics and data-science expertise with hands-on systems engineering to ship robust, scalable ML products. At Google he served as a tech lead for merchant-facing AI agents, and at Meta he now works on cutting-edge generative media in the SuperIntelligence Lab. His dual background in computer science and finance gives him a practical edge in aligning ML solutions to business impact.
2 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Nanjing University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Florida
English, Chinese