Published multiple papers in conferences such as ICLR'22, AAAI'22, KDD'22, SIGIR'22, SDM'22, WACV'22, ICTIR'22, NAACL'22, EMNLP'21, BMVC'21, SIGIR'21, AAAI’21, ICDE'21, TIP'21, NAACL'21, UAI'21, CIKM’21, ECCV'20, KDD'20, etc.
Research Experience
1. TikTok: Staff Machine Learning Engineer, focusing on the ranking model for search ads.
2. Baidu USA Cognitive Computing Lab: Senior Research Scientist, led by Dr. Li Ping.
Education
Completed PhD study at Nanyang Technological University under the supervision of Professor Junsong Yuan. During that period, completed deep learning research internships at Snapchat Research with Dr. Zhou Ren, Dr. Yuncheng Li, Dr. En-Hsu Yen, and Dr. Ning Xu, and at Adobe Research with Dr. Chen Fang and Dr. Hailin Jin.
Background
Currently a staff machine learning engineer at TikTok, focusing on the ranking model for search ads. Previously, a senior research scientist in Cognitive Computing Lab, Baidu USA, Seattle, led by Dr. Li Ping. Research focuses on short-video and image search for advertising, vision understanding backbone, cross-modal understanding, and fine-grained recognition.
Miscellany
Interested in working with me as a research intern? Feel free to drop an email through tyu008@ucr.edu or tyu008@ntu.edu.sg.