Yang Song


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About Me

Dr. Yang Song is currently the Head of Recommendation and User Growth at TikTok, managing a team of ~400 researchers and engineers to optimize TikTok's core recommender systems. Before that, he was the Head of Recommendation (VP of Engineering) at Kuaishou (HK.1024), where he oversees both the core recommendation modeling and data mining teams, and later the Search team. 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. Prior to joining Google, he worked as a researcher in Microsoft Research Redmond. Dr. Song is an award-winning researcher, actively involved in organizing academic conferences and has served as Program Chairs and Area Chairs for conferences such as Recsys, WSDM, TheWebConf (WWW), CIKM, AAAI, ACM-Multimedia and IEEE Big Data.

Here is the link to his Google Scholar page.

Employment

TikTok Head of Recommendation and User Growth, TikTok, California, U.S.A.
Kuaishou VP of Engineering, Kuaishou Technology, Beijing, China.
Google AI Research Manager, Google Research/AI, Seattle/Mountain View, U.S.A.
Microsoft Research Researcher, Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, 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.

2025

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