Rui Kou

Rui Kou is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn, where they focus on enhancing the platform's search, recommender systems, time series, and NLP models. With over six years of experience in machine learning software development, Rui has previously held roles as a Research Scientist at Pioneer Natural Resources Company and an HPC Solution Engineer at SLB. They hold a PhD in Distributed and Parallel Computing and a Master's in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, and are currently pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Science at Peking University. Rui possesses expertise in deploying end-to-end machine learning web applications on AWS and Azure, and is skilled in various parallel and distributed algorithms.