Hechao Sun
ML/AI engineer @ Instacart | ex - Meta
- Role
- Machine Learning Engineer at Instacart
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Hechao Sun
Graduated with a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics, with over 8 years of career expertise specializing in ML, RecSys & GenAI.
Experience
Machine Learning Engineer
Feb 2022 — Present
As an ML Tech Lead on Instacart\'s Search & Discover ML team, I lead the evolution of ML systems across various domains, including user understanding & modeling, personalized ranking & recommendation, GenAI assisted retrieval & recommendation etc.
Education
University of Maryland
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics
2012 — 2017
Nanjing University
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry
2005 — 2009
University of Maryland
Master of Science - MS, Chemistry
2009 — 2012
Skills
- Simulations
- Statistical Modeling
- Tensorflow
- Java
- Data Mining
- Quantitative Analytics
- Microsoft Excel
- Powerpoint
- Sas
- Analysis
- Sql
- Linux
- Apache Spark
- Mathematical Modeling
- Algorithms
- Data Analysis
- Python
- Latex
- Scala
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- R
- C
- Programming
- Microsoft Office
- C++
- Computer Science
- Statistics
- Machine Learning
- Research
- Matlab
- Microsoft Word
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