Resume
More than 10 years working on recommendation systems, ranking, and multimodal AI in research and production. Here's where I've worked.
Apr 2025 - Present
Meta
Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Menlo Park, CA 路 Facebook Feed ranking & recommendations
Own ranking and recommendation improvements for Facebook Feed, serving billions of daily users
Independently shipped 10+ production ranking launches across comments, unique commenters, profile visits, and creator-friend interactions
Led 79+ ranking quality experiments using NDCG-driven evaluation, offline validation, and large-scale A/B testing
Increased coverage of a key engagement training signal by more than 200% through an end-to-end logging pipeline audit
Led creator distribution fairness work using debiasing, label reweighting, and propensity strategies that increased follow events by ~4%
Migrated production prediction tasks from single-task models to multi-task learning architectures with task-specific adapters
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Scientist
Troy, NY 路 Multimodal AI & intelligent tutoring systems
Led applied AI research in computer vision, multimodal learning, LLMs, and human performance assessment
Built multimodal systems fusing video, eye-tracking, and language to evaluate trainee performance with real-time feedback
Integrated LLMs into simulation workflows to generate context-aware coaching and assessment summaries
Designed a virtual simulation environment for rapid prototyping of training and assessment applications
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Amazon
Software Engineer
Seattle, WA 路 Core Machine Learning Services (CTPS)
Built infrastructure for ML data ingestion and model-support workflows
Designed real-time data ingestion and delivery systems for modeling, analytics, and operational ML workloads
Developed cloud-native services and CI/CD pipelines on AWS to improve deployment reliability and developer velocity
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Troy, NY 路 Video understanding & skill assessment
Developed ML algorithms for automated performance evaluation from multimodal imaging, gaze, and video data
Built data analysis pipelines for multimodal research datasets, including preprocessing and public release preparation
Conducted research in video understanding, human activity analysis, and explainable AI
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Zhejiang Lab
Research Associate
Hangzhou, China 路 Big Data Mining & Analytics
Researched predictive modeling, pattern recognition, anomaly detection, and text mining
Explored active learning and scalable analytics for extracting patterns from large, complex datasets
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
CFAO Equipment
Senior Software Engineer
Douala, Cameroon 路 Training management platform
Led a training management platform serving ~600 users across 12 countries
Built systems to evaluate staff skills by role, identify capability gaps, and recommend training plans
Implemented scheduling and resource-management modules for training programs
Education
2017 - 2021
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Ph.D. in Computer Science
2012 - 2014
Babcock University, Nigeria
M.Sc. in Computer Science
2009 - 2012
Universit茅 Adventiste Cosendai, Cameroon
B.Sc. in Computer Science