# About Jean-Paul Ainam

> Jean-Paul Ainam is a machine learning engineer at Meta in Menlo Park, California, working on ranking and recommendation systems for Facebook Feed, and the founder of Logesta Labs, an independent studio building AI products.

## Who

Jean-Paul Ainam (JP Ainam) is a machine learning engineer at [Meta](https://www.meta.com/), based in Menlo Park, California. His day job is ranking and recommendations for Facebook Feed: the models and systems that decide what people see and in what order. Outside of work he builds and ships AI products under his own studio, [Logesta Labs](https://logestalabs.com).

He holds a Ph.D., Computer Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2021) and has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers on person re-identification, video understanding, and multimodal skill assessment.

## Experience

- Meta: Software Engineer, Machine Learning, 2025 — Now
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Research Scientist, 2023 — 2025
- Amazon: Software Engineer, 2022 — 2023
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2020 — 2021
- Zhejiang Lab: Research Associate, 2020 — 2021
- CFAO Equipment: Senior Software Engineer, 2017 — 2019

Across these roles the common thread is applied machine learning at scale: recommendation and ranking, computer vision and video models, and the engineering needed to run them in production.

## Research

His research covers person re-identification (matching people across cameras), unsupervised domain adaptation, video-based assessment of surgical and emergency-medicine skills, and multimodal deep learning. The full publication list is on [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gvLgfp4AAAAJ&hl=en); a short selection is on the [home page](https://jpainam.com/#research).

## Products

Products built independently under [Logesta Labs](https://logestalabs.com), newest first:

- [Retransmit](https://retransmit.dev): Email, SMS, and WhatsApp for developers. One API.
- [Captivaq](https://captivaq.com): Government contracting on autopilot. Finds, scores, and drafts bids.
- [BenefitRecon](https://militarybenefit.app): A map-first app for military benefits and discounts nearby.
- [Storelane](https://getstorelane.com): Link-in-bio commerce for creators.
- [Onirix](https://onirix.ai): Private AI search over your team's documents.
- [WishSong](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wishsong-gift-song/id6766134624): Personalized songs made with AI for any occasion.
- [Adorn AI](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adorn-ai-hairstyle-try-on/id6760600285): Try on hundreds of hairstyles from a single photo.
- [Discolaire](https://discolaire.com): School management, from grades to attendance, in one place.

## Elsewhere

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/jpainam)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/jpainam)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gvLgfp4AAAAJ&hl=en)
- [Contact](https://jpainam.com/contact): how to reach him

Canonical page: https://jpainam.com/about. Home: https://jpainam.com.