Shaodan Zhai

Shaodan Zhai is an experienced machine learning engineer currently serving as a Senior Staff ML Engineer at Meta since June 2025. Prior to this role, Shaodan worked at Coupang from August 2023 to June 2025, leading efforts to build large language models to improve e-commerce search functionality. Shaodan's experience at Twitter from January 2016 to August 2023 involved serving as a Senior Staff ML Engineer and leading technology initiatives in push and email recommendations, developing scalable deep learning recommendation systems. Early career experience includes a Research Assistant position at Wright State University and a Research Intern role at Microsoft, focusing on enhancing deep learning models for search applications. Shaodan Zhai holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wright State University.