Zhixian Yan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhixian Yan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Jose with a decade of experience building large-scale AI and data systems across industry and research. He combines deep academic credentials (PhD from EPFL and 2700+ Google Scholar citations with multiple paper awards) with hands-on leadership at Google, TigerGraph, and startups, shipping Cloud AI/DB, graph ML, and production TensorFlow/TFLite features. His background spans mobile sensing, spatio-temporal and sensor data management, recommender systems, and time-series optimization—skills he applied to real-world systems serving hundreds of millions of users. As a former co-founder and CTO, he pairs product-minded engineering with a track record of scaling ML pipelines and ETL for high-throughput recommendation and personalization. Notably, he bridges semantic web and knowledge-driven research with practical ML engineering, enabling robust, interpretable data solutions in production.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Sciences, Master Computer Sciences at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor Information System, Bachelor Information System at Chongqing University of Post and TelecommunicationsPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at EPFL
Github Skills (8)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
data-science10
ml10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
sidneyyan/graph-ml-notebooks
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
zhixianyan/MLAgentBench
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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