Yilin Chen is a Machine Learning Engineer with extensive experience in developing algorithms for recommendation systems and advertising platforms. Currently employed at Pinterest since May 2024, Yilin specializes in Related Pins Recommendation. Previous roles include a Machine Learning Engineer position at Nextdoor focused on Ads Ranking from July 2023 to May 2024, and a Senior Machine Learning Engineer role at Twitter from June 2021 to June 2023, where work involved Ads Prediction. Earlier experience at Twitter as a Machine Learning Researcher included research at Twitter Cortex during the summer of 2019. Yilin holds a PhD in Engineering and a PhD minor in Computer Science from Stanford University, completed in 2021, along with a Master's Degree in Statistics from Stanford from 2016 to 2018. Yilin's educational background also includes an exchange study at the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor's Degree in Transportation from Southeast University.
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