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Xian, Jiayi 冼嘉颐

Senior manager (AI), American Express

CS Ph.D., Math Ph.D., University at Buffalo

Email: verandah007.AT.gmail.com

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Biography

I am a Senior manager (AI team) at American Express, my major focus is in Natural language processing (NLP). Building NLP solutions for specific business use cases.

Before joining American Express, I joined University at Buffalo as a PhD student in 2013 fall. I was adviased by Xiaoqing Li (Math Phd degree). I joined CS department in 2017 fall, co-adviased by Prof. Shi Li and Prof Jinhui Xu (CS Phd degree). I obtained my bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China. I was a visiting student at Morningside Center of Mathematics Chinese Academy during Feb. 2014- July. 2014.

Research Interest

  • NLP, LLM and their applications in Search engine and Recommender
  • Personalization
  • Gen AI and Multimodal models

Education Background

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, advisor: Shi Li
  • Ph.D. in Mathematics, University at Buffalo, advisor: Xiaoqing Li
  • Bachelor, in Biology, University of Science and Technology of China

Work Experience

  • Senior Manager (AI scientist), American Express
  • Machine learning Engineer, Facebook (Intern)
  • Applied Scientist, Amazon (Intern)