# Yin Wang

> Changing world with innovations

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yinwang

Track record of leading small, elite, and aggressive teams to research and develop breakthrough technologies that enable billion dollar opportunities under incredibly tight time-pressure, specialized in machine learning, AI, and infrastructure domains.

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Aven
Jan 2021 – Present | Campbell, California, United States
Head of ML 
- Model architecture improvement for tabular data [NeurIPS 2024 workshop]
- ML infra for weekly prescreen campaign, nation's first

### Professor @ Tongji University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Shanghai, China
Computer Science Department, focused on AI and ML, developed the first Deep Learning course

### VP of Engineering @ 饿了么
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai, China
2nd largest food delivery company in China, 10+ million orders per day.  Consolidated the infra team and improved the overall efficiency by at least 2x.  Sold to Alibaba at $9.5B in 2018, 50% increase in valuation during my tenure.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Infra, FAIR, Maps

Started an initiative that auto-trace roads and buildings using deep learning.   Built a fully independent Facebook maps solution with a super lean team.  As a showcase, Facebook has doubled the total length of roads on OpenStreetMap Thailand with less than 30 mappers in 1.5 years.   It is by far the largest set of machine-generated roads on a public map.

### Research Scientist @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA
Large-scale platform for spatial data mining, applications include map matching and map update using global-scale GPS data [KDD 12, MobiSys 13]

### Ph.D, research assistant @ University of Micigan
Jan 2003 – Jan 2008
Software failure dynamic avoidance, especially avoiding concurrency bugs

### Research Intern @ IBM Almaden Research Center
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Almaden, CA
Storage systems [MASCOTS 08]

### Research Intern @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Palo Alto, CA
Storage systems [FAST 07]

### Software Testing Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 | Shanghai
product testing


## Education
### Ph.D in EECS
University of Michigan

### Bachelor of Science (B.S) in Master of Science (M.S), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yin-wang-8a3087b
- Portfolio: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~yinw

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Last updated: 2026-04-10