Yi Mao
Researcher at Microsoft
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Mao is a researcher in Mountain View with nine years of experience building and evaluating intelligent systems across Microsoft and Google, specializing in natural language generation, QA over structured data, and deep reinforcement learning. With a Ph.D. in Computational Science and an MSECE, Yi has a strong foundation in both theory and applied relevance tuning—from personalized and local search to app recommendation systems. At Microsoft they have moved from applied relevance roles into research-focused NLG and RL work, bridging product-driven evaluation with cutting-edge model development. Known for improving search and recommendation relevance in production settings, Yi combines rigorous experimentation with pragmatic deployment insights.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSECE, Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSECE, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech
English, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
python10
machine-learning10
cntk10
java10
deep-learning10
computer-vision10
microsoft9
pytorch9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-neural-networks8
parsing6
natural-language-processing6
corpus6
notebook6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Yi-Mao/pytorch-pretrained-BERT
Apr 2019 - May 2019
📖The Big-&-Extending-Repository-of-Transformers: Pretrained PyTorch models for Google's BERT, OpenAI GPT & GPT-2, Google/CMU Transformer-XL.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
berttransformer-xlnatural-language-processingpretrainedpytorch-models
Yi-Mao/OpenNMT-py
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Open Source Neural Machine Translation in PyTorch
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
pytorchmachine-translationtranslationneural-machine-translation
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