Guobiao Mei
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Greater Boston Area
Contact
- Email: contact@gmei.dev
- Website: gmei.dev
- On air: FCC Call Sign N1UI
- I am an amateur radio operator, and my QTH is in Newton, Massachusetts.
- You can sometimes find me on HF radio waves, usually via SSB mode.
Summary
- Machine learning research background (PhD degree in machine learning).
- Hands on software engineering experience in various products and systems.
- Years of experience in technical leadership and people management of engineering teams.
Experience
Google (October 2008 - Present)
Senior Staff Software Engineer (October 2023 - Present)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Technical Lead and Manager of teams that own data pipelines and data products to transform Google’s enormous search user activity logs into ranking signals.
Staff Software Engineer (October 2016 - October 2023)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Technical Lead and Manager of a distributed team (Cambridge, MA and Los Angeles, CA) that owns data pipelines to transform Google’s enormous search user activity logs into ranking signals.
Senior Software Engineer (April 2011 - October 2016)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Senior SWE on Flight Search backend team, developing systems that power google.com/flights.
Senior SWE and TL of the search analysis team, developing libraries, tools, and infrastructure for analyzing Google users’ search activity data.
Software Engineer (October 2008 - April 2011)
Los Angeles, California, United States
SWE and later TL of a team in the ads organization. Worked on developing backend systems to allow advertisers to place ads on the most relevant Google display network inventory.
Software Engineer Intern (June 2007 - September 2007)
Mountain View, California, United States
Worked in the AdSpam team as an intern. Designed and implemented a spam detector based on modeling user queries with hidden Markov models.
Education
University of California, Riverside, CA (September 2003 - June 2008)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
Obtained Ph.D. degree in computer science, with Dean’s fellowship award. Research area was machine learning, and more broadly artificial intelligence.
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (September 1999 - June 2003)
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
Graduated from Chu Kochen Honors College.
Publications
| Author(s) | Year | Title | Publisher | Bibtex / Abstract | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guobiao Mei | 2008 | Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms With Applications to Collaborative Data and Images | Doctoral dissertation, University of California at Riverside | bib/abs |  |
| Guobiao Mei and Christian R. Shelton | 2008 | Unsupervised Image Embedding Using Nonparametric Statistics | Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761051) | bib/abs | |
| Guobiao Mei and Christian R. Shelton | 2006 | Visualization of Collaborative Data | Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 341-348) | bib/abs | |
| Titus Winters, Christian Shelton, Tom Payne and Guobiao Mei | 2005 | Topic Extraction from Item-Level Grades | AAAI-05 Workshop on Educational Data Mining | |
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