About

Bo Zeng is an accomplished Engineering Manager with a specialization in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). He is currently working at Airbnb AI Labs as the Engineering Manager for Core Machine Learning, where he leads the development of text understanding, relevance, and classification models. Bo has extensive experience in the field of NLP and ML, having worked for several years at Facebook as a Research Scientist in the NLP infra team, where he applied neural network and deep learning techniques to solve natural language problems. Bo holds a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied nano-electronic and photonic phenomena in 2D semiconductor and meta materials. He also has a Bachelor of Engineering in Optoelectronics from Zhejiang University. Bo's academic background in physics has equipped him with a strong foundation in mathematics and data analysis, which he has utilized in his work in NLP and ML. Bo's professional experience includes internships at Google X as a research scientist intern and Facebook feed ranking as a software engineer. He has also worked as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer and a Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb AI Labs, where he developed expertise in topic/sentiment classification, multilingual word embedding, text-based ticket routing automation, entity recognition and extraction, and document semantic embedding. Bo's technical skills include ML, senior software engineering, AI, NLP, research science, deep learning, neural networks, software engineering, and infra. He has over 7 years of relevant experience in the field of NLP and ML. Bo is a driven and innovative professional who is passionate about using technology to solve complex problems.