Engineering Online Experimentation and ML Evaluations

Ming Lei is a data and ML engineering leader with 20 years of experience building end-to-end ML systems for Internet Ads and Search, and experimentation platforms for E-commerce. He has designed large-scale systems that operationalize rigorous statistical methods -- such as sequential testing, bootstrapping, multi-armed bandits, and Bayesian optimization -- and support ML evaluation from offline analysis to online deployment. His leadership spans roles at eBay, Meta (Facebook), Google, and Appen. He holds multiple US patents and advanced degrees in computer science (UC Riverside) and economics (Clark University), along with a B.S. in physics (Wuhan University). He is based in the Northwest of US.