About Qian

Qian Zhao is a researcher and engineer in the fields of Recommender Systems, NLP/GenAI and Machine Learning. Currently, he's a machine learning engineering manager at Meta based in Sunnyvale, California.

Before joining Meta, he founded Creator Incubation Research in the Los Angeles area to build AI-driven products with the latest technologies and conduct scientific research about them. Before relocating to California, Qian was an AI engineering manager/team leader and senior researcher/engineer in Bloomberg's AI Engineering group in New York, leading teams to gather data, train, serve and maintain production LLMs/NLP models for various products in the financial data domain (e.g., news and research documents enrichement, security offer extraction from communication messages).

Qian earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the GroupLens lab at the University of Minnesota, where he was advised by Professor Joe Konstan. Qian's research interests lie broadly at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction (e.g., user-centered design and evaluation of online interactive recommender systems). Before that, he worked in industry in China for a few years, where he focused on large-scale data mining and machine learning systems for video recommendation and computational advertising products.

Services

Talks