Shuai Zhao

Motto: To Advance Technology For Better Experience.

Research Interests: Search/Recommendation/Advertising, Natural Language Processing, Causal Inference and Experiment Design

Broader Interests: Optimization Methods, Bandit/Reinforcement Learning, Philosophy of Science, Organizational Behavior

Email: sz255(at)njit.edu

Short Bio

I am a machine learning engineer at Linkedin. Previously, I was an applied scientist at Amazon. I received Ph.D. in Data Science at NJIT, during when my research collaborated with Forbes Media, AT&T Labs-Research and Hearst Communications. I received my Bacholar of Information Systems at Xidian University.

Work Experience

Machine Learning Engineer, Linkedin, Seattle, WA. 07/2022-Current

Applied Scientist II, Amazon Alexa AI, Seattle, WA. 11/2020-07/2022

Machne Learning Research Collaborator (Mentor: Wen-Ling Hsu, Guy Jacobson), AT&T Labs - Research, Bedminster, NJ. 05/2018~10/2020

Data Science Research Collaborator (Supervisor: Achir Kalra), Forbes Media, Newport, NJ. 08/2016~10/2020

Oracle ERP Financial Engineer (Fulltime), Hand ERP Solutions Ltd. (SSE:300170), Shanghai, China. 06/2014~06/2015


Technical Skills

Python, Java, R, C++, Shell/Scripting, MongoDB, MySQL, TensorFlow, pyTorch, DeepLearning4J, Spark, Hive, Pig, Docker, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook

Selected Publications

Google Scholar Page

Shuai Zhao, Michael Chen, Cristian Borcea, Yi Chen, Personalized Dynamic Counter Ad-Blocking Using Deep Learning, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023

Shuai Zhao, Wen-Ling Hsu, George Ma, Tan Xu, Guy Jacobon and Raif Rustamov, Characterizing and Learning Representation on Customer Contact Journeys in Cellular Services, The 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2020.

Shuai Zhao, Achir Kalra, Cristian Borcea, and Yi Chen, Measuring the Impact of Counter-Ad-blocking Strategies on User Engagement, The Web Conference (WWW), Oral Presentation, 2020.

Shuai Zhao, Xiaopeng Jiang, Guy Jacobson, Rittwik Jana, Wen-Ling Hsu, Raif Rustamov, Manoop Talasila, Syed Anwar Aftab, Yi Chen and Cristian Borcea, Cellular Network Traffic Prediction Incorporating Handover: A Graph Convolutional Approach, The 17th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2020.

Shuai Zhao, Roshani Bharati, Cristian Borcea, and Yi Chen, Privacy-Aware Federated Learning for Page Recommendation, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2020.

Qiong Wu, Wen-Ling Hsu, Tan Xu, Zhenming Liu, George Ma, Guy Jacobson and Shuai Zhao, Speaking with Actions - Learning Customer Journey Behavior, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2019.

Chong Wang*, Shuai Zhao*, Achir Kalra, Cristian Borcea, and Yi Chen. Webpage Depth Viewability Prediction using Deep Sequential Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol.31, No. 3, 2019.

Shuai Zhao, Manoop Talasila, Guy Jacobson, Cristian Borcea, Syed Anwar Aftab, and John F. Murray, Packaging and Sharing Machine Learning Models via the Acumos Open Platform, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2018.

Chong Wang, Shuai Zhao, Achir Kalra, Cristian Borcea, and Yi Chen. Predictive Models and Analysis for Webpage Depth‐Level Dwell Time, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol.69, No. 8, 2018.

Services

Reviewer: SIGIR, VLDB, WSDM, CIKM, ICDE, TKDE, TOIS, INFORMS Journal of Computing, Artificial Intelligence Review, AMCIS

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