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Michael Xu is listed as Engineering Director, Search and Machine Learning Platform at Apple AIML (We’re hiring) at Apple, based in Los Altos, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Michael Xu.
Michael Xu previously worked as Engineering Director, Search and Machine Learning Platform at Apple and Senior Director of Engineering at Google. Michael Xu holds Master, Computer Science And Technology from Tsinghua University.
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Michael is Engineering Director in Apple’s AIML organization, leading the team responsible for search platform and foundation model platform powering Siri, Safari, Apple Music, App Store and other Apple products, working together with research and product teams to rebuild search with AI.Prior to Apple, Michael was Senior Director of Engineering at Google, responsible for the data indexing and semantic understanding platforms from Google's Core organization. The platforms he was responsible for power Search, Lens, Ads, Shopping, YouTube, Photos, Play, Vertex AI and other business critical Google products. He led the team and built Generative AI capabilities in the platforms to serve LLMs and other GenAI models and empower product innovation with the latest AI/ML technologies at scale. It contributed to many of the Generative AI efforts announced in Google IO'23 and launched in 2023 (including Google Photos Magic Editor, Google Lens in Bard, Generative AI Wallpaper, Image Generation in Search, etc). Before joining Core, he worked on Search Infrastructure and was responsible for Google's web indexing system powering Web Search and other Search products. He led the team and built the new web indexing system that replaced its predecessor (externally known as Caffeine), built web page rendering in the web indexing system and made Googlebot evergreen with the latest Chromium, built the crawling and indexing system for Google's App Indexing, successfully launched for Android apps.Michael has led various distributed engineering and cross-functional teams, drove cross-org collaboration and complex projects, and served as the engineering leader responsible for the deployment of web-scale distributed systems and data/search infrastructure that enables cutting-edge AI/ML technologies. It’s always been Michael's passion to build cutting edge technology to enhance products for end users.
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Cupertino, California, Us
Engineering Director in Apple’s AIML organization. Leading the team responsible for search platform and foundation model platform powering Siri, Safari, Apple Music, App Store and other Apple products. Working together with research and product teams to rebuild search with AI.
Mountain View, Ca, Us
Senior Engineering Director in Google's Core organization, led the Data Indexing and Semantic Understanding teams as part of the Information Retrieval org. * Led the development of the next-gen data indexing and semantic understanding platforms for products across Google, powering Search, Lens, Ads, Shopping, YouTube, Photos, Play, Vertex AI and other business critical products. * Built Generative AI capabilities in the platforms to serve LLMs and other GenAI models and empower product innovation with the latest AI/ML technologies at scale, contributed to many of the Generative AI efforts announced in Google IO'23 and launched in 2023 (including Google Photos Magic Editor, Google Lens in Bard, Generative AI Wallpaper, Image Generation in Search, etc).
Mountain View, Ca, Us
Engineering Director in the GPI (Google Product Infrastructure) organization which later evolved to be Google's Core organization. Led the following major efforts. * Evolved the Web Indexing system beyond Google Search, powered YouTube Search, Play Search, Ads and other Google products. * Built up the Data Indexing team and Semantic Understanding team. * Initiated the efforts to build Google's next-gen data indexing and semantic understanding platforms supporting different content types and powering Google products (including Search, Ads, YouTube, Photos, Lens and others).
Mountain View, Ca, Us
Engineering Manager in the Search Infrastructure team, and later became part of the GPI (Google Product Infrastructure) organization. Led the following major efforts: * Built web page rendering in the web indexing system, successfully scaled it to the entire indexing of Google Web Search. * Built the crawling and indexing system for Google's App Indexing, successfully launched for Android apps. * Built the new web indexing system to replace Caffeine, successfully launched it for Google Web Search. * Led the team through the transition of moving from Search Infrastructure to GPI (Google Product Infrastructure).
Mountain View, Ca, Us
TLM (Tech Lead Manager) in the Search Infrastructure team, responsible for subsystems of the Web Indexing System (externally known as Caffeine). Initiated the effort to render web pages in the indexing system and index the rendered contents for Google Search.
Mountain View, Ca, Us
Joined the Search Infrastructure team in Mountain View, worked on Google's first incremental-processing based Web Search indexing system (externally known as Caffeine) and contributed to the launch of Caffeine in 2010. Became TLM (Tech Lead Manager) since 2010 and responsible for subsystems of Caffeine.
Mountain View, Ca, Us
Tech lead of the Mobile Search team in Google Beijing office, worked on Search syndication with China Mobile and China Unicom, built Mobile Video Search, Wireless Transcoder and other Google products for the China market.
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Michael Xu works for Apple.
Michael Xu is listed as Engineering Director, Search and Machine Learning Platform at Apple AIML (We’re hiring) at Apple.
Michael Xu is based in Los Altos, California, United States while working with Apple.
Michael Xu has worked for Apple, Google, and Ibm Research.
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Michael Xu holds Master, Computer Science And Technology from Tsinghua University.
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