Summary
Yun Hao is a Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience combining academic research and industry impact, currently applying NLP and recommender-system expertise at Uber in Sunnyvale. Pursuing a PhD in Information Sciences, Yun specializes in leveraging playlist titles and descriptions to improve music recommendations, search relevance, ranking, and personalization. Early work in Music Information Retrieval explored source separation and phrase-level acoustic features for mood classification, reflecting a rare fluency across audio signals and text-based models. Comfortable moving research into production, Yun aims to continue turning text signals into practical improvements for large-scale recommender systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration, Information Management and Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration, Information Management and Information Systems at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Master of Science - MS, Library and Information Science, Master of Science - MS, Library and Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English