About

Melinda Xiao-Devins is a highly skilled Sr. NLP and ML engineering manager at Zoom Video Communications, where she leads an exceptional team of ML engineers across four different time zones. With over four years of relevant experience, Melinda has a proven track record of building versatile ML teams, inspiring and encouraging them to bring out their best, and matching various projects with team members based on their strengths and growth preferences. As a technical leader, Melinda's contributions include guiding her team to choose the best suitable ML models that meet high-level product requirements, leading them to architect design & invent customized ML solutions, and creating innovative products and new features utilizing ML and NLP. She has hands-on experience in TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, spaCy, and NLTK. Melinda is also very familiar with AWS infrastructure and has prior experience in Python, Java, C#, .NET, Ruby on Rails, and C++. Melinda holds two master's degrees in computer engineering and physics and is currently a PHD candidate. She also holds many certificates in machine learning. Her educational background includes a Master of Science in Computer Software Engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Peking University. At Zoom Video Communications, Melinda leads her team to invent and build NLP solutions for Zoom meetings, Zoom phone, and other Zoom applications. She also leads the development of an ML recommendation engine and data ETL pipeline for OnZoom / Zoom Events. Melinda's strength as a people leader is in bringing structure and efficiency to her team to amplify their impact and productivity. Melinda's tech stack includes ML, NLP, Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Recommendation system, Ruby, Keras, Spark, Scikit, TensorFlow, ETL, Pytorch, Software Engineer, infra, and Python. She is a highly skilled professional with a passion for building innovative ML solutions that drive business growth and enhance user experiences.