Yang Song


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About Me

Dr. Yang Song joined Kuaishou (HK.1024) as the Head of Recommendation (VP of Engineering) in June 2020, where he oversees both the core modeling and data mining teams, and later the Search team in 2023. In this role, he managed and lead over 100 engineers and scientists in developing machine learning models that drive Kuaishou’s recommendation, search and advertising engines across all major services, including domestic products (Kuaishou and Kuaishou Express) as well as international products (Kwai). Under his leadership, the platform has emerged as one of the world’s leading short-video content communities and social networks, serving 1 billion monthly active users and experiencing rapid growth (Bloomberg, Forbes). He is also an award-winning researcher, actively involved in organizing academic conferences and has served as Program Committee Chairs and Area Chairs for top conferences such as Recsys, WSDM, TheWebConf (WWW), CIKM, AAAI, ACM-Multimedia and IEEE Big Data.

Prior to joining Kuaishou, Dr. Song served as the Research & Engineering Manager in the Deep Dialogue group of Machine Intelligence at Google AI, where he contributed to developing advanced dialogue engines for Google products through the application of deep learning, natural language processing, and recommender systems.

Dr. Song spent seven years at Microsoft Research (a.k.a. MSR) before joining Google. He worked as a researcher at the Deep Learning Technology Center at Microsoft Research Redmond, Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) and the Search Quality & Cyber-Intelligence Lab (SQ-CIL) at MSR Redmond. He joined Microsoft Research in 2009 following the completion of his Ph.D., during which he collaborated with his advisor, C. Lee Giles, on developing the next-generation scientific literature search engine CiteSeer, which was once one of the world’s most popular scientific literature search engines [screenshot].

Here is the link to his Google Scholar page.

Employment

2020.6~2024.6, VP of Engineering, Kuaishou Technology, Beijing, China.
2016.5~2020.6, Research Manager, Google Research/AI, Seattle/Mountain View, U.S.A.
2009.1~2016.5, Researcher, Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, U.S.A.
2008 Summer, Research Intern, IBM TJ Watson, Hawthorne, NY, U.S.A.
2007 Summer, Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
2005 Summer, Research Intern, Ask.com, Piscataway, NJ. U.S.A.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and EngineeringThe Pennsylvania State University
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China

Research Interests

My research includes a broad interests of machine learning-related fields, e.g., information retrieval, search engine ranking, recommender systems, natural language processing and so on.

Invited Talks & Media Coverages

Journal Publications

Referred Conference Proceedings

(*) are students I mentored for their summer internships at Microsoft Research and Google Research.

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2024

2023

2022

2021

2020 & Earlier Years

Contact Me:

Email: ys at sonyis dot me
Kuaishou Technology,
6 Shangdi West Road Haidian District
Beijing, 100085 China
Google Research
747 6th St
Kirkland, WA 98033
Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052