David Yang
Staff Research Scientist
- Role
- Staff Research Scientist, Modern Recommendation System (Mrs) Instagram, Meta at Meta
- Location
- Suffolk County, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Yang
Staff Research Scientist | Technical Leader | People ManagerStaff Research Scientist with a proven track record in cutting-edge AI and Deep Learning research, specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Vision-Language Modeling (VLM). Published at top-tier AI conferences (CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS), advancing state-of-the-art AI methodologies.Experienced technical leader leveraging AI innovations to drive significant business impact. Led breakthroughs in user and content understanding, recommendation systems, and AI-powered global-scale mapping—delivering over $1M+ in daily ad revenue, state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in Meta’s most widely used language and image models, and a 160x boost in mapping speed.Over 10 years of people management experience, mentoring 7+ team members to senior and staff roles, expanding technical scope, and fostering high performing teams.
Experience
Staff Research Scientist, Modern Recommendation System (Mrs) Instagram, Meta
Mar 2023 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US
Tech-led the user conversation understanding for improving recommendation systems, and a cross-functional team (AI researchers, SWEs, PMs) across Facebook and Instagram for execution.
Education
Tsinghua University
Ph.D Candidate, Computer Integrated Manufacturing System
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D, Control and Automation
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Master, System Design
Skills
- C
- Software Development
- Algorithms
- Simulink
- Agile Methodologies
- C++
- Software Design
- Java
- Embedded Systems
- Distributed Systems
- Object Oriented Design
- Embedded Software
- Software Engineering
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