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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Chief Technology OfficerAppier Jan 2024 - PresentTaipei, Taiwan, TwBring AI to AdTech & MarTech solutions, and ROI to our customers. -
Vice President Of EngineeringAppier Nov 2022 - Dec 2023Taipei, Taiwan, TwBring AI to AdTech solutions and ROI to our customers. -
Senior Director Of EngineeringCompass Mar 2021 - Oct 2022New York, Ny, UsEngineering 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. -
Director Of EngineeringCompass Mar 2019 - Feb 2021New York, Ny, Us -
Senior Director, Machine Learning EngineeringZillow Group Sep 2018 - Mar 2019Seattle, Washington, UsEngineering 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 -
Director, Machine Learning EngineeringZillow Group Dec 2016 - Aug 2018Seattle, Washington, Us -
Principal Applied Science ManagerMicrosoft Jun 2010 - Dec 2016Redmond, Washington, UsWork 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 -
Research InternIntel Labs Jan 2009 - May 2009Hillsboro, Or, UsDeveloped a parallelized, real time activity recognition system. Presented on multiple Intel research events -
Research InternNec Laboratories America, Inc. May 2007 - Aug 2007Princeton, Nj, UsResearch on Human activity detection/recognition on surveillance video and spatial-temporal feature extraction from video -
Research InternFx Palo Alto Laboratory May 2005 - Aug 2005Research on graphical model on multiple semantic concept detection, which resulted in TRECVID'05.
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Software EngineerOpenfind May 2000 - Apr 2002Beitou District, Taipei City, TwDeveloped a Chinese search engine which serves main Chinese portals.Developed a real-time Chinese news search service for Sydney 2000 Olympic game.
Robert Chen Education Details
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Carnegie Mellon UniversityComputer Science -
National Taiwan UniversityComputer Science And Information Engineering
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Robert Chen attended Carnegie Mellon University, National Taiwan University.
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