Summary
Yiping Han is a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience building large-scale search, personalization, and recommendation systems across Yahoo! and Meta. He has deep technical roots—contributing to early Hadoop and Pig development and architecting Yahoo! Homepage newsfeed from scratch—while also leading multi-layer engineering organizations for 8+ years. At Meta he now heads IG Reels Core Modeling and Ranking AI for monetization, focusing on measuring and improving user sentiment to inform product and marketing decisions. Known for hiring, people development, and shaping engineering culture, he blends hands-on ML and cloud expertise with product-minded growth tactics. Based in the Bay Area with a PhD in visualization and visual data mining, he brings rare cross-disciplinary depth spanning research, systems, and operational leadership.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Sciences, BS Computer Sciences at Zhejiang University
PhD Computer Graphics Scientific Visualization Visual Data Mining, PhD Computer Graphics Scientific Visualization Visual Data Mining at Stony Brook University
English, Chinese, Spanish