Allen (Haoran) Shi

Passionate Machine Learning Practitioner

United States

About

Experience

  • Machine Learning Research Engineer at Apple
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    GenAI (Apple Intelligence)

  • Senior Applied Scientist at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
    Feb 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Prime video home page personalization by leveraging heterogeneous behavior data

  • Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
    Feb 2020 - Jan 2024 · 4 yrs

    Sponsored Brand Advertising, working on fundamental science problems of ads understanding and the applications in retrieval, relevance, response prediction and auction.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 · 5 mos

    TA for Applied Machine Learning by Prof. Carolyn Rose

  • Machine Learning Intern at Petuum, Inc.
    May 2019 - Aug 2019 · 4 mos

    • Designed and built the skeleton of NLP-pipeline project which serves as the infrastructure of machine learning solutions, including data packing schema, configuration-based programming, bridging the gap between distributed system team and machine learning teams • Built the CNN-biLSTM-CRF model and Bio-Bert model for name entity recognition (NER) and integrated it with the span-based semantic role labeling (SRL) model in NLP-pipeline framework