David Xue

Machine Learning Engineer @ Pinterest

Improving sequence modeling and transformers in heavyweight rankers

• MLE with background in NLP and Recommender Systems
• Played with LLMs, multimodality models & RAG before they were cool
• Previously @ Astronomer (Series C), Hive AI (Series D), Meta, Amazon
• B.S. Computer Science & Economics @ University of Virginia
• MEng. Computer Science, Machine Learning @ Cornell
• Did my first ML research project in highschool with a CMU PhD student
• Learned my first programming language Pascal in 5th grade
• Love pondering about life's big questions