# Chao Tian

> Machine Learning Software Engineer/Scientist

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chaotian

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning @ Netflix
Jan 2020 – Present

### R&D Manager, health AI, ML development @ 23andMe
Jan 2012 – Jan 2020
Health AI, ML, Meta-learning, Risk-prediction,  Anomaly detection, Sequence Data Pattern Recognition.
Authored and co-authored 60+ high-impact Journal Papers 2005 - 2020 Google Scholar Link
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B6juTC4AAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Complete Genomics Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Production software for anomaly detection : 
[Patent: Determining variants in a genome of a heterogeneous sample. Jonathan Baccash, Aaron Halpern, Chao Tian, Krishna Pant, Paolo Carnevali
Patent issuer and number us WO2013040583A3]

### Statistician @ Perlegen Sciences
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Statistical Modeling and machine learning, risk prediction and causal inference
[First Author Paper: Tian C, Stokowski RP, Kershenobich D, Ballinger DG, Hinds DA. Variant in PNPLA3 is associated with alcoholic liver disease. Nat Genet. 2010]


## Education
### PhD & MS in Statistics, Statistical/Quantitative Genetics
University of California, Davis

### MS in Computer Science
Colorado State University

### Bachelor of Science
Wuhan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chao-tian-scientist

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Last updated: 2026-04-12