# Chao Wang

> Staff Machine Learning Engineer | LLM | RL

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chaowang

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Present
- Won Execution Award in AI Org(an honor to 1-2 individuals of the whole org of ~1000 people), and was a finalist a second time.
- Rich hands-on experience on LLM SFT & RL, RAGs etc. 
- Pioneered the company's first end-to-end embedding-based retrieval, leading the efforts from model architecture design to system integration and deployment.

### Senior Hardware Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
- Built highly efficient platforms in C++ to simulate large scale circuits and systems, achieving 10-100X runtime speedup and 10X less memory usage compared to commercial tools that rely on numerical methods, by building an automatic ordinary differential equation solver.
- Best paper nomination at a top-tier conference. Patent granted.


## Education
### PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland

### Bachelor in Electronic and Information Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chao-wang-2abab047

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Last updated: 2026-04-12