Summary
Yian Wang is a Machine Learning Engineer with five years of experience building practical NLP and ML solutions across industry and academia, currently working at 美团 in Seattle. With an MS in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington, he has deployed language generation pipelines on Azure, produced a 20,000-sentence low-resource dataset, and implemented multilingual detection tools and an iOS app using Google ML Kit. His background spans production-focused roles—from automated profit-reporting SDKs for traders to large-scale social media data collection and annotation for mental health research—demonstrating both engineering rigor and applied research instincts. Comfortable with cloud APIs, Python tooling, and rapid prototyping, he bridges research and product delivery while favoring hands-on solutions that generate operational impact.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics at University of Washington
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 香港中文大学(深圳)