After Ph.D.

• April 2020 - now, Full-time at Bloomberg L.P., New York, United States

  • Engineering Manager in the Artificial Intelligence group

• July 2018 - March 2020, Full-time at Bloomberg L.P., New York, United States

  • Senior Research Engineer in the Artificial Intelligence group

During Ph.D.

• August 2013 - May 2018, Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States
  • Research Assistant, GroupLens lab, advised by Prof. Joe Konstan
  • Teaching Assistant for CSci 2033: Elementary Computational Linear Algebra, Fall 2013
  • Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. 2016-17.
• August 2017 - November 2017, Intern at Google Research, Mountain View, United States
  • Recommender system research
• May 2017 - August 2017, Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, United States
  • Recommender system research
• May 2016 - August 2016, Intern at Yahoo Research, Sunnyvale, United States
  • Recommender system research
• May 2014 - July 2014, Intern at Wise Inc., Berkeley, United States
  • Data science and machine learning research and engineering

Before Ph.D.

• October 2012 - July 2013, Full-time at Baidu Inc., Beijing, China
  • R&D engineer in the Sponsored Ads model group
• July 2010 - August 2012, Full-time at Funshion Online Technologies Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
  • R&D engineer and then team lead in data mining and video recommendation
• Sept. 2006 - July 2010, B.E. in Software Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China