Youwen Kang
Product Manager at TikTok
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYouwen Kang is a product manager with eight years of experience blending technical depth from a HKUST/USC computer science background with hands-on product work at TikTok, Tencent Ads’ creative center, and Alibaba Cloud. Comfortable shipping data-informed features, he has practical ML and computer vision experience from RIPS-HK where he led implementation of object detection models and explored GANs for semi-supervised learning. Based in Hong Kong, Youwen bridges engineering, stakeholder communication, and cross-cultural collaboration across industry and academia. He brings a research-minded approach to product decisions, often translating prototyped ML solutions into measurable product improvements. Notably, his trajectory spans internships to full product roles at major platforms, giving him a rare mix of deep technical fluency and large-scale product execution.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Chinese, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
AndyKANG98/RIPS-HK-Using.ai
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
AndyKANG98/comp2012
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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