Yiqun Hu Email & Phone Number

Experienced Research & Development leader specialized in the cutting-edge Data Science and Big Data technologies. He has experiences of more than 10 years in software development and technology innovation. He has led the teams consisting of engineers and researchers in two silicon valley companies (eHealthInsurance.com/PayPal). He has successfully led several research innovations and delivered the production-ready solutions to impact business. His team was the global winner (1st place) of the global innovation competition of PayPal 2012. He has two patents filed with Microsoft Research Asia and eBay Inc. His data science team currently focuses on delivering large-scale machine learning solution for e-commerce/payment industry. He has the unique capability and experiences of managing a join team of engineers and researchers to conduct applied research and convert them to production-ready solution/innovation to impact business. As a computer scientist, he also maintained the successful track record in academia research. He has published 1 book chapter and over 40 scientific papers in the flagship international computer science journals/conferences, i.e. TPAMI/TIP/TMM, CVPR/ICCV/ECCV etc. His papers have been cited in 1500+ papers in international scientific publications (http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gIHCye8AAAAJ\​&hl=fr). He is data hacker in different data science competitions. He is one of few master players in Kaggle from Singapore. Kindly check his record in Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/codingneo.

Listed skills include Algorithms, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Software Engineering, and 16 others.