About

Tianxiao Huang is a highly experienced Manager of ML Engineering currently working at Twitter. With over 7 years of relevant experience, he has been instrumental in managing the onboarding product engineering team at Twitter. In his current role, he oversees the activation of new users on Twitter, including signup flow and account recommendations. He has successfully grown the team from 5 engineers to 9, including hiring 1 Staff engineer. Tianxiao has also coached the team, resulting in 4 promotions, including promotion to the Staff level. Tianxiao is a highly skilled professional who has participated in the planning and day-to-day execution of his team. He has collaborated with Product Managers, Designers, Researchers, and Data Scientists to improve Twitter's product. Tianxiao has an extensive background in machine learning, product engineering, backend infrastructure, and web development. Before joining Twitter, Tianxiao worked as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at the same company. He was part of the Onboarding Relevance team and made multiple improvements to the signup process, including new features such as language selection and infinity scrollable follow recommendations. He also updated the recommendation system, rebuilt the training pipeline, and made infrastructure changes to increase readability of code and make features easier to be adapted on other surface areas. Tianxiao's past experience also includes working as a Sr. Modeling Scientist, Brand Engineering at Quantcast. Here, he extended the product catalog by working on several new products that met business needs. He focused on improving and scaling in-house video products. Tianxiao holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in Biostatistics from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science degree (double major) in Psychology Science from Peking University. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from Peking University. Tianxiao attended Beijing No.8 Middle School before his college education. Tianxiao has a strong tech stack that includes ML, Research Scientist, Recommendation system, infra, Data Scientist, Backend, and Web. He is a highly motivated and skilled professional who is passionate about his work and eager to take on new challenges.