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Jan 2024 - Present
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Robert Chen is listed as Chief Technology Officer at Appier, based in Greater Seattle Area, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Robert Chen.
Robert Chen previously worked as Vice President of Engineering at Appier and Senior Director Of Engineering at Compass. Robert Chen holds M.S. And Ph. D, Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Engineering leader with extensive experience rapidly building and managing teams in the US and internationally at pre-IPO, post-IPO, and mega tech companies. Experience working in ML/AI, Ad Tech (platform, publisher, and advertiser) and the real estate domain.I am a data-driven, product-oriented, customer-focused technology leader who helps the company to grow business. Most recently have been leading the engineering initiatives for marketing platform, video platform, digital marketing, computer vision, and propensity modeling with product leaders to drive customer workflows and company revenue. I have extensive experience driving high-quality operational metrics and supporting the strategy of business goals with machine learning and highly scalable cloud platforms.
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Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
Senior Director Of Engineering
Engineering leader leading AI/ML and marketing technology efforts at Compass managing over 100 US and India full-time engineers and scientists, and overseeing 220+ developers in the China program. Help make Compass IPO in April 2021 with multiple projects listed in SEC filing.- Lead teams to build the marketing platform for Compass real estate agents to run their marketing needs including e-mail, print, video, social, and paid marketing. The platform includes template editors, content management, video generation, digital ads, payment, marketing insight, and marketing automation. The marketing platform revenue grows over 100% in both 2021 and 2022.- Lead a team to build the seller propensity model to identify potential sellers from agents’ CRM contacts and also the recommended actions for agents to nurture the opportunities to sales. The tool brings hundreds of million incremental revenue for Compass in 2020, 2021 and 2022.- Build the Computer Vision team and deliver a couple of CV products including document automation, video generation, and re-model suggestion. Document automation solves the problem of transaction coordinates to split and run compliance checks on transaction documents. It saves dozen of million dollars for Compass from improved productivity.- Oversee the efforts for Compass to run a 220+ developers program in China. The effort includes managing the budget, collaborating with vendor companies, recruiting, on board, retaining talent, and building an efficient model for Chinese developers to work with US teams.
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Director Of Engineering
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
Senior Director, Machine Learning Engineering
Engineering leader leading AI/ML efforts at Zillow managing 30+ full-time engineers and scientists. - Deliver cloud version of Zestimate by leveraging AWS EMR which improves MAPE by 20%- Deliver home recommendations on e-mail marketing by leveraging collaborative filtering and content-based filtering which brings incremental 7% visits and leads to Zillow- Build the marketing technology team and deliver multiple new ads types and marketing automation on Paid Social, Digital Display, and SEM which brings incremental 5% visits and leads to Zillow- Build the Agent AI team and deliver the core buyer-agent matching algorithm which double the lead conversion rate and enable Zillow Flex program which aims to double Zillow’s lead revenue
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Director, Machine Learning Engineering
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Principal Applied Science Manager
Work on multiple analysis, data mining, and machine learning projects. Hand on experience from building data pipeline to measurable metrics, and leveraging machine learning on ranking, relevance and recommendation problems.MSN : - Lead a group of software engineers and applied scientists to work on MSN news personalization by leveraging contextual bandit, LDA, relevance, and ranking which significantly increases user engagement (+100%) and revenue (+$500m)-Technically lead a team to develop MSN analytics and data mining system. Define business and operational metrics to bring business insight and enable A/B testingBing: - Lead a team to collect and analyze various engineering and performance metrics to improve Bing engineering system and Bing applicationsBing Ads: - Develop ETL data pipelines for Bing Ads. Define and analyze Bing Ads operational metrics and Yahoo-Bing Ads migration metrics
Jun 2010 - Dec 2016
Research Intern
Developed a parallelized, real time activity recognition system. Presented on multiple Intel research events
Jan 2009 - May 2009
Research Intern
Research on Human activity detection/recognition on surveillance video and spatial-temporal feature extraction from video
May 2007 - Aug 2007
Research Intern
Fx Palo Alto Laboratory
Research on graphical model on multiple semantic concept detection, which resulted in TRECVID'05.
May 2005 - Aug 2005
Software Engineer
Developed a Chinese search engine which serves main Chinese portals.Developed a real-time Chinese news search service for Sydney 2000 Olympic game.
May 2000 - Apr 2002
2 education records
Robert Chen education
M.S. And Ph. D, Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S, Computer Science And Information Engineering
National Taiwan University
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Robert Chen works for Appier.
What is Robert Chen's role at Appier?
Robert Chen is listed as Chief Technology Officer at Appier.
Where is Robert Chen based?
Robert Chen is based in Greater Seattle Area, United States while working with Appier.
What companies has Robert Chen worked for?
Robert Chen has worked for Appier, Compass, Zillow Group, Microsoft, and Intel Labs.
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Robert Chen holds M.S. And Ph. D, Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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