# Chu-Ya Yang

> Software Engineer at ZipRecruiter

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chuya

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ ZipRecruiter
Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Software Development Engineer @ The Michaels Companies, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Irving, Texas, United States
1. Built search engine of e-commerce website for Michaels Store
2. Developed backend API for search with Java and Elasticsearch
3. Developed semantic search service by encoding search keywords with sentence transformer and ranking the products based on similarity of embeddings
4. Improved semantic search performance by utilizing keyword extraction

### Machine Learning Intern @ Wave Computing
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Campbell, California, United States
1. Utilized embedding methods, such as GloVe, ELMo, BERT, FastText and Flair Embedding, and combined with sequence tagging model to do Named Entity Recognition (NER)
2. Achieved 92.95% F1 score for the best method on CoNLL 2003 English dataset

### Reseach Assistant @ Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Taipei City, Taiwan
1. Designed a self-learning framework to segment objects in unseen video using Python and Caffe
2. Achieved favorable performance against the state-of-the-art algorithms (Our method: average IoU 72.6% on DAVIS 2016 dataset; TransferNet: average IoU 62.4% on the same dataset)
3. Published paper as the third author: “Unseen Object Segmentation in Videos via Transferable Representations”, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chu-ya-yang

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Last updated: 2026-03-31