Liang SHANG
Ph.D, Machine Learning Engineer

FLYWHEEL

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Keywords: recommendation, search, time-series analysis, demand forecast, assortment optimization, data visualization

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FLYWHEEL

  • Provided recommendation and search systems for clients.
  • Led and implemented the process from POC to product launch.
  • Managed data flow from raw user logs to user-item feature data.
  • Handled model training, updates, and serving.
  • Completed A/B testing and analyzed the test results.
  • Built KPI dashboards to evaluate the system’s business value.
  • Built a deep interest network for re-ranking the retrieval recall results.
  • Implemented fine-tuning of an open-source LLM based on LoRA and user data.
  • Clients (Not all): [Conata™ Discovery Ads] [EC: COOP] [EC: Netsea] [EC: Manga Mee] [Optimization: KDDI Logistics Center]
  • Tech stack: Python|AWS|SQL|dbt|Dagster|Airflow|Snowflake|Tableau|LLM|Pytorch|Huggingface|Elasticsearch

EY Japan

  • Developed a tax type classification model based on NLP feature extraction.
  • Implemented abnormality detection based on tax documents (Patent).
  • Achieved an F1-score of 0.7 for the tax type classification model.
  • Tech stack: Python|Pytorch|TF-IDF|R|Shiny|Bert|Azure|Alteryx

Yahoo Japan

  • Developed recommendation systems for Yahoo Shopping and Toppage; prepared data pipelines for feature generation.
  • Detected bot users on Yahoo Shopping.
  • Applied DeepWalk and GRU-based graph feature extraction for item and user embedding.
  • Increased GMV by 115% with the proposed model; awarded the Science Department Award twice.
  • Proposed features that improved click-through rate by 10% (Patent).
  • Tech stack: Hive|Spark|Python|Airflow|Scala|Pytroch

Awards and Certificates

  • 2024, Tableau Certified Consultant, Tableau Software.
  • 2021, Youth Talent Support Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • 2020, Science Group Award, Yahoo! Japan, Top 5%.
  • 2019, Data & Science Award, Yahoo! Japan, Top 5%.
  • 2018, Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), N1, Japan Educational Exchanges and Services.
  • 2017, Internation Conferences Subsidy, The NEC C&C Foundation, Top 20%.
  • 2015, Outstanding Graduate Student, Northwest A&F University, Top 5%.
  • 2013, National Scholarship for Graduate Student, Ministry of Education, Top 1%.
  • 2012, Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), N2, Japan Educational Exchanges and Services.
  • 2008-2012, First Prize of Academic Scholarship, Northwest A&F University, Top 10%.

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