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Yang Song

VP of Recommendation Research

Meta  ·  Menlo Park, CA

About Me

Dr. Yang Song is VP of Recommendation Research at Meta, where he leads research on large-scale recommendation systems. Prior to Meta, he served as Head of Video Recommendation and User Growth at TikTok, leading a team of approximately 400 researchers and engineers to advance TikTok's core recommender systems. Before TikTok, he was VP of Engineering at Kuaishou Technology (HK: 1024), overseeing recommendation modeling, data mining, and search. He has also held positions as Research and Engineering Manager in the Deep Dialogue group at Google AI, and as a researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond.

Dr. Song is an award-winning researcher with over 100 scientific publications. He is an active contributor to the research community, having served as General Chair, Program Chair, and Area Chair at premier venues including RecSys, WSDM, TheWebConf (WWW), CIKM, AAAI, ACM Multimedia, and IEEE Big Data.

ANNOUNCEMENTI will be the General Chair of WSDM 2027 in Hong Kong, here is the CFP page.

Employment

Meta VP of Recommendation Research, Meta, California, U.S.A.
TikTok Head of Video 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 Engineering The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University, China

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