Huajun Zeng
Sr. Director/VP Of AI
Mountain View,CA
Summary
Technical leader oversees every facet of intelligent and scalable products with strong strategic planning and team building skills. Brings comprehensive knowledge of Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graph, Search/Recommendation Engine, and Cloud Computing. Strong publication records including 50+ granted US patents and 40+ top research papers. Strong hands-on coding capabilities with key contributions to popular open source projects.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Director of Engineering
EBay
01.2022 - Current
- Developed eBay’s AI vision and delivery roadmap that helps eBay be “AI-first” company
- Led AI engineering team of eBay across multiple geo-locations globally and built team with more than 60 backend engineers, ML engineers, full stack engineers and support engineers
- Delivered AI products including ML Platform, Realtime Data Pipeline, Embedding Database, Knowledge Graph etc. and served hundreds of AI applications within eBay for Recommendation, Search, Risk Control, Marketing, Live Commerce, etc.
Founding Member - AI Engineer
Rulai Inc
08.2016 - 12.2021
- Served as a founding member of Rulai Inc., one of the best conversational platform providers with zero coding requirement
- Delivered chat-bot products for enterprises for their customer service, sales, and employee productivity needs
- Delivered knowledge management and bot training tools to help bot designers
- Led AI algorithm research and development efforts for the conversational platform
- Built core conversational AI algorithms including natural language understanding, dialogue, and knowledge graph, etc
- Built AI infrastructure for offline and online systems and delivered highly accurate and scalable systems.
Director of Engineering
Alibaba Group
02.2014 - 08.2016
- Worked as a direct report to Alibaba’s CTO, and created OneSearch, a mobile search product from scratch
- Built a virtual team consisting of Quixey, a US start-up with 200+ employees, and an Alibaba mobile search team with 30+ engineers and designers
- Expanded OneSearch traffics by collaborations with major mobile channels such as Alipay, Meizu, and YunOS
- Expanded user scenarios of OneSearch by collaborations with third party content providers on mobile apps, news, local entities, products, online videos, etc
- Improved mobile search quality by deep learning based intent detection, question answering, recommendation and personalized search ranking algorithms.
Principal SDE/SDE Lead
Microsoft
06.2008 - 02.2014
- Delivered ServiceFabric, one of the foundations of Microsoft Azure. It’s Microsoft’s distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable micro-services and container. It was recently open sourced at https://github.com/Microsoft/ service-fabric
- Delivered the resource manager of ServiceFabric by Simulated Annealing-based optimization algorithms
- Delivered an easy-to-use distributed programming API of ServiceFabric by using reliable data structure
- Improved the failover protocol of ServiceFabric by Finite State Machine-based formal modeling.
Researcher/Research Lead
Microsoft Research Asia
04.2001 - 06.2008
- Published 40+ research papers in top conferences and journals in areas of Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning, etc
- Published 50+ patents (granted) related to search and online advertising products
- Improved keyword matching algorithms of Microsoft AdCenter by keyword expansion, keyword extraction, demographic prediction technologies
- Improved search experiences of Microsoft Live Search (now Bing) by search result clustering, keyword extraction technologies
- Improved research productivity by providing a large scale data processing platform within the team which processes terabytes of web content and log data daily, and provide intuitive programming API for writing distributed algorithms.
Director of Engineering
Shanghai Cowin Ltd.
07.1996 - 09.1998
- Delivered a Construction Project Management Information System (CPMIS).
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
09.1998 - 04.2001
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Automation
09.1992 - 07.1996
Skills
Collaborative Leadership
Timeline
Senior Director of Engineering - EBay
01.2022 - Current
Founding Member - AI Engineer - Rulai Inc
08.2016 - 12.2021
Director of Engineering - Alibaba Group
02.2014 - 08.2016
Principal SDE/SDE Lead - Microsoft
06.2008 - 02.2014
Researcher/Research Lead - Microsoft Research Asia
04.2001 - 06.2008
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Master of Science, Computer Science And Engineering
09.1998 - 04.2001
Director of Engineering - Shanghai Cowin Ltd.
07.1996 - 09.1998
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Bachelor of Science, Industrial Automation
09.1992 - 07.1996
Publications
Papers and Patents
40+ top research papers on SIGIR, WWW, ICDM, etc. and 50+ granted US patents. List available upon request.
Books
Machine Learning. Authored by Tom M. Mitchell. Chinese version translated by Huajun Zeng, Yinkui Zhang
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