Yali Bian
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolYali Bian is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production ML systems, currently driving candidate generation and light ranking at Pinterest. With a PhD and 7+ years of published research from Intel Labs, she specializes in human-AI collaboration, interactive ML, explainable AI, and practical solutions for recommender systems, cold-start, and deepfake detection. She has hands-on MLOps and infra experience from Instacart building feature lifecycle platforms and integrating tools like MLflow, SageMaker, Ray, Spark and Airflow to streamline distributed training and model governance. Yali’s background includes large-scale ML at Facebook and full-stack interactive visualization work at Nokia Bell Labs, giving her a rare combination of scalable systems engineering and human-centered model design. Based in Fremont, CA, she blends rigorous research instincts with product-focused engineering to ship interpretable, user-aware ML features in production.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Virginia TechB.Eng Computer Science and Technology; Pro. Che Zhang, B.Eng Computer Science and Technology; Pro. Che Zhang at Harbin Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Computer Science and Technology, Master's degree Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (52)
glip10
pytorch10
stack-based10
racket10
openmmlab10
polyglot10
andriod10
mask-rcnn10
instance-segmentation10
code-golf10
vision-transformer10
retinanet10
scheme10
swin-transformer10
object-detection10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bianyali/notes
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
yalibian/www.yalibian.com
Oct 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
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