About

Yao Shen is a highly experienced Machine Learning Engineer with over 11 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently, he is working at Facebook as a Machine Learning Engineer, where he is responsible for developing and implementing machine learning models in Natural Language Processing and Image Processing. Before joining Facebook, Yao worked at Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer and Computer Vision Consultant. During his tenure at Microsoft, he developed and implemented various machine learning models, including a local article recommendation and ranking system, an attention-focused multilingual transformer for hotel query intent understanding, and a name entity recognition model with sequence processing for multiple languages. He also worked on semantic segmentation on 3D indoor objects with deep convolutional neural networks for Hololens, real-time foreground segmentation in video conferences for Skype (Teams), and human gesture recognition with depth cameras on Kinect for Xbox. Yao holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Texas, where he studied from 2007 to 2011. He has a strong technical background and expertise in Machine Learning, Image Processing, NLP, Software Engineering, Neural Networks, and Computer Vision. Overall, Yao is an accomplished Machine Learning Engineer with excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for developing cutting-edge machine learning models. His experience and technical expertise make him a valuable addition to any organization looking to implement machine learning solutions.