Feb 2018 – Nov 2025 · 7 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Tech leadership.
• GenAI initiatives for media/ads applications.
• Shipped first text-to-image generation model customized to Netflix IPs.
• Promotional media algo & production (video and image).
• Core video recommendation system.
• Uplifting member experience and engagement.
• Strategies to align the algo roadmap with business objectives for team growth and innovation.
• X-functional collaboration spanning creative production, production design, infrastructure, data science, and UI teams.

Aug 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco

• Technical Lead on Efficient Deep Learning.
• Applying AI to smart retail analytics.
• Convolutional Object Detection.
• Single Shot Multi-Task Deep Learning.
• Real Time Human Face/Gender/Age/Activity Detection in videos.
• Deep Network Architecture Design.
• Deep Learning on Embedded Device.

Jan 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Lead a team to develop EventNet, a large scale concept ontology with hierarchical structure, for concept based semantic indexing on event videos. Develop sophisticated machine learning methods as concept classifiers to obtain strong event detection performance.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs

• Work on large-scale video event detection, object detection, video retrieval, and social
• media network. Define research directions, formulate research problems, guide students
• to work out solutions, and summarize research results in academic papers.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

• Work on advanced statistical learning models such as multi-edge graph model, sequential multi-class classification, hashing based similarity search, and sparse & low rank representation.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

• Work on content-based tag processing for Internet social images such as tag ranking, tag refinement, tag-to-region assignment, semi-automatic tagging, and tag-based social media retrieval.