# Rui Kou > Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LinkedIn Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ruikou ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning @ LinkedIn Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Flagship(2023 - now) - Reinforcement Learning, RLHF, Feed ranking and personalization, content understanding and summarization, email notification Core-AI, (2021-2023) - LLM fine-tune model, Search (resume search, job search), Embedding Based Retrieval, Entity Extraction ### Research Scientist @ Pioneer Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Model parallelization, Time series modeling, Deep Learning ### HPC solution Engineer @ SLB Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Australia ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Distributed and Parallel Computing Texas A&M University ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Texas A&M University ### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Peking University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rui-kou --- Source: https://flows.cv/ruikou JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ruikou/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12