Lingjue Xie

Machine Learning Team Lead at Bloomberg

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Bloomberg (15 yrs 4 mos)
    • Machine Learning Team Lead
      Jul 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 1 mo

      Managed a team building rule-based + statistical models for entity extraction (CRF, MaxEnt, SVM) Designed high-precision workflow to enrich financial text with entity metadata Oversaw internal tooling for feature engineering and large-scale model evaluation Collaborated with product teams to integrate extraction pipelines into real-time news systems

    • Machine Learning Engineer
      Aug 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr

      Developed CRF-based NER models using lexical, POS, orthographic features Built scalable feature extraction pipelines in C++/Python Improved precision/recall of entity tagging models through active-learning & model tuning Worked with linguists and analysts to refine domain-specific rules

    • Machine Learning Engineer
      Apr 2011 - Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Built text preprocessing components (tokenizer, POS tagger, sentence splitter) Implemented SVM/LogReg classifiers for topic tagging, document relevance & sentiment Optimized C++ pipelines for large-scale real-time text processing Collaborated with research teams to deploy statistical models into production

  • Course Assistant at UCLA Extension
    Jan 2010 - Mar 2010 · 3 mos

    Supported applied machine learning coursework; assisted students with NLP assignments and deep learning fundamentals

  • Applied Scientist Intern at Search Science and AI at Amazon
    Jun 2009 - Sep 2009 · 4 mos

    • Fine-tuned semantic product matching model using human-labeled datasets (+10.2% recall) • Built multi-task relevance & similarity model (+2.8% MAP) • Filtered irrelevant products using transformer classifier (-17.2% noise)

  • Data Scientist Intern at Consumer Risk at PayPal
    Sep 2008 - Jun 2009 · 10 mos

    • Identified risky shipping addresses via decision tree strategy (~290K monthly loss reduction) • Analyzed large-scale user/transaction data; unified inconsistent database structures

  • University of California, Los Angeles (3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Department of Statistics
      Aug 2007 - Sep 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

      • Summarized theory for best subset selection and shrinkage methods • Simulated pure-noise datasets to evaluate inflation of significance levels

    • Junction of Statistics & Biology Lab
      Apr 2005 - Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      • Developed local alignment algorithm (EpiAlign) for epigenomic signal comparison • Implemented clustering models to classify 20,000+ tissue-associated genes • Built interactive web portal for EpiAlign visualization • Applied non-negative matrix factorization for mRNA isoform detection