# Jian Wang

> Tech Lead for Tiktok Content Ecology

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jianwang1

Specialties: Machine Learning, Scale out Storage Systems,  Virtualization, Operating Systems, Parallel/Distributed systems, Networking

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2023 – Present
2025 ~
TL for Tiktok Content Ecology Algo team.
We are hiring.  
https://lifeattiktok.com/search/7447661470168795410
https://lifeattiktok.com/search/7449455065176590610
 
2023 ~ 2024
Lead TV and PC recommendation work for Tiktok. 
Launched ranking/prerank/recall models for TV and Webapp. 
Grow TV DAU by 7x

### Research Scientist @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California
* MLE Content Understanding, FB/IG Reels Recommendations
IG Reels recommendation, lead user understanding axle, develop SOTA user
embeddings with Graph Learning for both retrieval and ranking stage.
* Created Visual Semantic Embedding with text-image contrastive loss which enables
similarity-based retrieval, zero-shot learning

### Systems/Software Engineer @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 | Andover, MA
Scale out NAS and hyperconverged storage network

### Research Affliate @ MIT
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge
Research on Big Data for Critical Care with Vertica In-memory Database.
Critical Data Mining in Intensive care.
Predicting ICU readmissions from the MIMIC-III database.
https://mimic.physionet.org/

### Software Engineer @ SUN Microsystem
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005
Host Bus Adapter(HBA) device driver(AMR/AAC) development for SCSI RAID cards  on x86 platform, Solaris10. Integrated SCSI RAID HBA driver to Solaris 10.


## Education
### PH.D in Computer Science
Binghamton University

### Master in Computer Science
Florida State University

### M.S in Computer Science
Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications

### B.S in Computer Science
Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jwang3417

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Last updated: 2026-04-12