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Yang Song

Dr. Yang Song is currently the VP of Recommendation Research at Meta. Before that, he was the Head of Recommendation and User Growth at TikTok, managing a team of ~400 researchers and engineers to optimize TikTok's core recommender systems.

Prior to TikTok, he was the Head of Recommendation (VP of Engineering) at Kuaishou (HK.1024), where he oversaw both the core recommendation modeling and data mining teams, and later the Search team. Dr. Song also served as the Research & Engineering Manager in the Deep Dialogue group at Google AI, and worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond.

Dr. Song is an award-winning researcher, actively involved in organizing academic conferences and has served as Program Chair and Area Chair for conferences such as Recsys, WSDM, TheWebConf (WWW), CIKM, AAAI, ACM-Multimedia and IEEE Big Data.

Employment

Meta VP of Recommendation Research, Meta, California, U.S.A.
TikTok Head of Recommendation and User Growth, TikTok, California, U.S.A.
Kuaishou VP of Engineering, Kuaishou Technology, Beijing, China.
Google AI Research Manager, Google Research/AI, Seattle/Mountain View, U.S.A.
Microsoft Research Researcher, Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, U.S.A.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University, China

Research Interests

My research includes broad interests in machine learning-related fields, e.g., information retrieval, search engine ranking, recommender systems, natural language processing, and user modeling.

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(*) indicates students I mentored for their summer internships.

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