Yicheng Chen

Mountain View, CA easonc92@gmail.com

I am currently a senior machine learning engineer at Uber. Previously I worked at Meta on various ML problems. Before that, I received my PhD degree in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco.


Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Uber

UberEats discovery relevance, feed ranking.

06/2022 - Present

Research Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer

Meta/Facebook

Worked on various domain of applied machine learning/deep learning, including business integrity, platform growth, people ranking, etc.

01/2020 - 06/2022

Software Engineer (Machine Learning Track) Intern

Facebook

Researched ranking methods for Facebook Marketplace motor products using sparse neural networks and multi-task multi-label deep neural networks. Also developed a module supporting task-dedicated dense feature input in neural networks.

05/2019 - 08/2019

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

HeartVista

Implemented generic MRI image data preparation pipeline for deep learning model training using Tensorflow. Developed and tested automatic motion artifact detection algorithm for cardiac MR scans using convolutional neural networks such as ResNet, DenseNet with Tensorflow and Keras.

06/2018 - 08/2018

Education

University of California, Berkeley/ University of California, San Francisco

PhD in Bioengineering

Dissertation: Developement of Deep Learning Methods for Magnetic Resonance Phase Imaging of Neurological Diseases.

List of my publications:

08/2015 - 12/2019

Tsinghua University

Bachelor of Engineering

Major: Engineering Physics (Second degree in Economics)

08/2011 - 07/2015


Interests

Apart from being a engineer/researcher, I enjoy running and building Legos.