About Me

I'm Jean-Paul Ainam, a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 10+ years of experience spanning large-scale recommendation systems, ranking, computer vision, and multimodal AI. Today I work at Meta, where I work on ranking and recommendation improvements for Facebook Feed.

My path into machine learning ran through research. I earned my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, focusing on person re-identification and deep learning, and I later worked as a Research Scientist and Postdoctoral Associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on multimodal systems that fuse video, gaze, and language to assess human performance. Along the way I've published 20+ peer-reviewed papers.

Before Meta, I built ML data infrastructure at Amazon and led production software for distributed teams across Africa and Asia. I like working across the full life of a system, from defining the problem and building features to testing ideas and putting them into production.

Outside of work, I design and ship my own AI products under Logesta Labs. My projects include WishSong, Adorn AI, Onirix, Storelane, and BenefitRecon, a map-first app for finding military benefits and discounts. I enjoy turning an idea into a product and learning from how people use it.

Originally from Cameroon, I've lived and worked across four continents. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk about machine learning, research, or building products.