Yao Wu is a highly experienced engineer specializing in machine learning and recommendations systems, currently serving as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta since August 2021, focusing on Facebook Feed Recommendations. Prior to this role, Yao was a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter from August 2016 to August 2021, leading the Recommendations Platform team and making significant contributions to candidate retrieval, ranking, and representation learning, which enhanced key metrics across various platforms. Yao's earlier experience includes internships at Turi, where large-scale nearest neighbors search models were developed, and at Walmart Labs, collaborating with the Personalization team. Yao holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University, a Master of Science from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China.
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