Cheng Niu

AI Researcher

San Francisco, California, United States20 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
  • Led development of intelligent chatbots at Tencent.
  • Extensive experience in R&D across multiple tech giants.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and Natural Language Processing technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingArtificial Intelligence

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentDialogue Status TrackingQuestion-AnsweringReading ComprehensionMachine TranslationInformation ExtractionText MiningR&DSemantic WebSpeech RecognitionData MiningRecommender SystemsSearchText AnalyticsProgramming

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
5 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

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Distinguished Research Scientist

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceSoftware Development

Tencent america

Principal NLP Researcher，WeChat AI Chief Scientist, Development Manager

Dec 2016 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Palo Alto, CA

  • Development and research in the field of intelligent chatbot, typical tasks includes natural language understanding, dialogue status tracking, question-answering, reading comprehension, sequence-to_sequence generation, and etc.
Natural Language ProcessingDialogue Status TrackingQuestion-AnsweringReading ComprehensionArtificial Intelligence

Particle media, inc.

Founding Engineer, Head of Content Understanding, NLP and Machine Learning

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Alibaba group

Senior Staff Engineer

Dec 2014 – Mar 2015 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Applying natural language processing and machine learning technologies to generate new user experiences on mobile search
Natural Language ProcessingMachine Learning

微软

3 roles

Principal Software Development Manager

Feb 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Lead Bing Web Spam/Junk/Content Quality Team
Natural Language ProcessingMachine Learning

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2008 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Researcher

May 2005 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • R&D in natural language processing, machine translation and multi-lingual information retreival
Natural Language ProcessingMachine Translation

Cymfony

Senior Research Scientist

Jan 1999 – May 2005 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

  • R&D in information extraction and NLP
Information ExtractionNatural Language Processing

Education

University at Buffalo

Ph.D. — physics

Jan 1995 – Jan 2000

Peking University

Master — Physics

Jan 1988 – Jan 1995

Beijing Second Middle School

Jan 1985 – Jan 1988

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