Wei Chu

About Wei Chu

I am an R&D team leader and an award-winning researcher with over 15 years of well-balanced academia and industry experience. I am now a senior director & researcher of Ant Group, leading a team of 100+ researchers and engineers to develop cognitive computing services, including computer vision, natural language understanding and knowledge graph platforms. Previously I was the head of PAI 2.0, Alibaba Cloud\'s distributed machine learning platform. Prior to joining Alibaba, I was the team leader at Microsoft Bing developing personalized search technology. At Yahoo! Labs I worked with colleagues on web-scale user-click stream for content optimization.I completed three years of postdoc training at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, mentored by Zoubin Ghahramani in the field of statistical machine learning, and also conducted two years of applied research at CCLS, Columbia University. I received my Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore, under the joint guidance of S. Sathiya Keerthi and Chong Jin Ong.My main interest is to design and deliver learning algorithms that transform large-scale machine-readable data into human-comprehensible knowledge that not only has a major impact on human life, but also makes machine intelligence more equitable and trustworthy. I have published extensively in top-tier conferences and journals including ACL, CVPR, ICML, JMLR and NIPS, and have been cited over times according to Google & hl=enhttps://weichu.github.io/e••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Chief Scientist & Co-founder

   INF Tech

   Apr 2023 — Present

Education

• National University of Singapore

  Ph.D., Machine Learning

Skills

• Predictive Modeling
• Text Mining
• Mapreduce
• Computer Science
• Personalization
• Data Mining
• Foosball
• Cloud Computing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bayesian Statistics
• Soccer
• Distributed Systems
• Big Data
• Information Retrieval
• Pattern Recognition
• Machine Learning
• Hadoop
• Search
• Algorithms
• Natural Language Processing