Summary
Ze Tian is a software engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over a decade of experience building ML-driven search, recommendation, and entity understanding systems at scale for Microsoft, Alibaba, and Meta. At Meta he currently improves Marketplace listing understanding and ranking with multimodal LLMs like Llama 3, while prior roles at Bing and Alibaba delivered instant answers, knowledge-graph driven entity features, and recommendation models that boosted CTR/CVR and GMV. He blends research-grade rigor with production engineering—designing pipelines and algorithms from scratch to power real-world products—and has a track record of turning complex NLP and entity problems into robust, scalable features. Based in Redmond, he brings cross-domain experience spanning bioinformatics research to large-scale commercial systems, and his GitHub motto ("renew daily") reflects a continual drive to iterate and learn.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Nankai University
Chinese, English