About

Yiming Sun is a highly skilled Software Engineer with a specialization in machine learning. He is currently working at Facebook as a Software Engineer in machine learning, where he is responsible for delivering product code and designing and analyzing algorithms. Yiming enjoys the entire process, from theory to implementation, and is passionate about delivering products for internal users and customers. Yiming's research interests lie in high dimensional time series, randomized algorithms, and general machine learning. He has a Ph.D. in Statistics from Cornell University, where he completed his thesis on "High Dimensional Time Series Analysis with Applications to Finance and Genomics." Yiming also holds two Master's degrees, one in Computational Mathematics and the other in Statistics, from Stanford University. Prior to joining Facebook, Yiming worked as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Instacart, where he led the development of the real-time availability model and the development of causal ML in coupon distributions. He also mentored several economists in machine learning and engineering and built a self-contained package for the entire team to use. Before Instacart, Yiming worked as an Applied Scientist at Amazon. Yiming has a strong technical background and is skilled in ML, Software Engineering, Research Science, Data Science, and Apache Airflow. He has 4.36 years of relevant experience and is a highly motivated individual with a passion for solving complex problems. Yiming is an excellent team player and has a proven track record of delivering high-quality work.