Jean-Paul Ainam

Jean-Paul Ainam

ML Engineer @ Meta

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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

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