Ren Wang

Tech Lead Manager at TikTok (ex - Meta, Apple)

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning at TikTok
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Algorithms and ML for Tiktok Location Based Services - Place matching, conflation, classification - Recommendation algorithm for geotagging in video/post creation - User location estimation and user profiling - Large language model (LLM) applications in TT Location Based Services

  • Research Scientist at Meta
    Dec 2021 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

    ML for SMB and Meta Business Suite - Personalized action recommendation - User acquisition targeting

  • Apple (Sunnyvale)
    • Senior Machine Learning Engineer
      Apr 2018 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Maps POI Data. - Apple Pay transaction to POI Matching - Algorithms for POI coverage and attributes improvement

    • Software Engineer
      Jun 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Maps Traffic and Machine Learning. - ETA prediction - Traffic estimation and speed prediction

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jan 2016 - May 2016 · 5 mos

  • Research Intern at IBM Research
    Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 · 5 mos