Yao Pan
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYao Pan is a Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning at LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, CA, with 12 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and applying ML to real-world problems. He currently leads generative AI research and productionization at LinkedIn, focusing on scalable content summarization with LLMs and knowledge distillation, as well as large-scale content generation with LLMs and RAG. His scope includes optimization workloads such as a large-scale linear programming solver for multi-objective optimization and matching, and AI-driven email optimization to boost CTR and reduce unsubscribes. Earlier, he contributed across LinkedIn as a machine-learning software engineer and worked as a research assistant at Vanderbilt University and Virginia Tech, bridging academia and industry. He holds PhDs in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and Vanderbilt University and a BE in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, underscoring a strong blend of research depth and scalable engineering.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Virginia TechDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
decomposition9
solver9
optimization-methods8
mixed-integer-programming8
optimization7
architecture6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
VT-Magnum-Research/sodacloud
Feb 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:69 commits in 8 months
cloudarchitectureshared-objectdistribution
panyao/jsMapReduce
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 5 months
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