Bryan Chia

Bryan Chia is a Machine Learning Engineer on the ads team at Pinterest since February 2024, following a role as a CV-NLP Scientist Intern at Ancestry, where significant improvements in token classification accuracy were achieved through finetuning LLMs. Prior to Ancestry, Bryan was a Student Researcher at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-authoring a paper on fairness in foundation models that was published at AAAI-24. Additional experience includes a Research Data Science Internship at Meta, where a model was developed to predict CPU usage, leading to a 40% reduction in wastage, and a Machine Learning Internship at PayPal, improving payment processing models. Earlier roles encompass a Senior Analyst position at Cornerstone Research, maintaining an ETL pipeline at Citi, and research assistant roles at Brigham Young University and the University of Chicago. Bryan Chia holds a Master’s degree in Data Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Economics from Brigham Young University.