Minjie Fan
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (E7), Technical Lead at Instagram
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinjie Fan is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying statistics and machine learning to high-impact problems across advertising, biology, medicine, physics, and geophysics. She has led technical teams at Google and Meta/Instagram, driving deep learning models and user embeddings that contributed to over $1B in annual Shopping ads revenue. With a PhD in Statistics from UC Davis and a strong publication record (including Nature Communications and Science Advances), she uniquely bridges rigorous research and production-grade ML. At Google Accelerated Science she translated statistical methods into real-world scientific discoveries, authoring eight peer-reviewed papers. Currently she focuses on early-stage ranking and recommendation at Instagram, combining causal thinking and representation learning to improve feed relevance. Colleagues describe her as a research-minded engineer who turns complex scientific insights into scalable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics at University of California, DavisMinor Economics, Minor Economics at Fudan UniversityExperimental accelerated science program, Experimental accelerated science program at High School Affiliated to Fudan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
google9
ai9
machine-learning8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
minjay/S2Kit_Matlab
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
minjay/nonsta_matern
Nov 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:123 pushes, 1 branch, 11 comments in 1 year 8 months
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