Xiaoling Zhai

Xiaoling Zhai is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning at LinkedIn, where they focus on LLM modeling and training infrastructure. They previously held positions as a Big Data Fellow, where they designed a movie recommender system using Hadoop MapReduce, and as a Data Engineering Fellow, where they built a real-time fraud detection system with high accuracy and low latency. Xiaoling also contributed to face identification projects at Purdue University, leveraging deep learning techniques, while conducting research on bacterial communities through advanced simulation techniques. They hold a Ph.D. candidacy in Physics from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Nanjing University.