Vanessa Feng

About Vanessa Feng

I earned my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Toronto, with 8 years of experience in Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and general Artificial Intelligence problems.I have a general interest in all kinds of data science tasks and problems, ranging from predictive modeling, recommender systems, semantic search, and large-scale data processing. I\'m particular confident and proficient with coding and development in Python-based data science toolkit, and have hands-on experience with the latest big data technologies, i.e, HDFS, HIVE, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and Apache Spark. I am also proficient in a wide range of programming languages, with the capability for full-stack development and implementation of Data Science products.

Experience

1. Software Engineering Manager

   Meta

   May 2025 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US

Education

• University of Toronto

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science

  2011 — 2014

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Information Security

  2005 — 2009

• University of Toronto

  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Computer Science
• Mapreduce
• Python
• Latex
• Natural Language Processing
• Hadoop
• Hive
• Algorithms
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Data Science
• Web Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Javascript
• Mongodb
• C++
• Mysql
• Big Data
• Jquery
• Research
• Data Analysis
• Computational Linguistics
• Matlab
• Presentation Skills
• Programming
• Omniture
• Artificial Intelligence
• Apache Spark
• Search Engine Marketing (Sem)
• Java
• Sql
• C#
• D3.js
• Statistics
• Analytics
• Elasticsearch