Renbin Peng - Senior Engineering Manager at Meta (Facebook)

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Renbin Peng Senior Engineering Manager at Meta (Facebook)

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Renbin Peng stands out in the field of software development with an impressive profile that showcases a marriage of management prowess and technological ingenuity. Spanning close to two decades of industrial and academic experience, Peng's tenure is marked by substantial contributions to AI/Machine Learning, user understanding, computer vision, and system architecture development. Holding the position of Senior Engineering Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook), Peng has significantly advanced the core business areas by improving user and product growth, revenue, and ecosystem quality and integrity. This included spearheading AI modeling and infrastructure solutions that addressed complex business challenges and led to multiple technology innovations.

With 5,336 LinkedIn connections, Peng's professional narrative is one that speaks to their leadership and forward-thinking approach to technology. As the founder and leader of various teams both in the U.S. and the UK, they have optimized user experience, content recommendations, and content delivery systems, which have greatly impacted advertisers and creators alike. Their exceptional groundwork has earned recognition and their accomplishments haven been featured in renowned outlets such as NPR News and TechCrunch.

Peng's educational background complements their extensive hands-on experience, holding a Ph.D. from Syracuse UniversityÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Bachelor & Master degrees from Xidian University. Before their remarkable journey at Meta, they honed their skills at Adobe as a Computer Scientist, where they were instrumental in creating features for Photoshop, and at Siemens Corporate Research, where they developed algorithms for video tracking. Peng's skill set in Machine Learning and Data Mining is not just theoretical, but represents a history of practical applications and demonstrated impact in the software industry.

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Full name: Renbin Peng
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Company: Meta (Facebook)
Industry: Software Development
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renbin-peng-92779719/
LinkedIn Connections: 5336
Summary: Extensive management and leadership experience with the strong business and technology acumen. Summary: (1) Business Contributions & Technology Innovations: Significantly improved the core business of the company on user/product growth, revenue, and ecosystem quality/integrity; protect the creator/publisher ecosystem by being responsible for the copyright infringement detection (for video and audio) for the entire company. Years of experience in developing AI Modeling and Infrastructure solutions to handle business problems, with numerous innovations to advance the company technologies: (i) AI models with different scales to understand users/creators and understand/process/generate content, covering single modality and multi-modality, also including Generative AI (large models/AIGC), multiple of which were featured in pubic media. (ii) Large scale systems to power user/content understanding, recommendation, and copyright infringement detection, etc. (2) Founded and lead multiple teams in the U.S. and UK. We optimize the experience of users, advertisers and creators by powering User Growth, Content Recommendation, Advertisement, Content Creation & Optimization, Copyright Protection, Integrity/Safety and Content Delivery. (3) Founded and led Instagram Machine Learning team, and dramatically boosted user growth and engagement with the Machine Learning and personalization technologies. (4) Close to 20 years of industrial and academic experience in AI/Machine Learning, User Understanding, Computer Vision, Image/Video Processing, Natural Language Processing and large-scale system architecture/development. (5) Accomplishments featured by National Public Radio (NPR) News, TechCrunch, F8 (Meta Developer Conference), Meta All-hands and Instagram All-hands.
Skills: Machine Learning Data Mining

Education

Syracuse University: Ph.D
Attended in 2006 - 2011
Field of study: Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Xidian University: Bachelor & Master degrees
Field of study: Electrical

Positions

Meta (Facebook) San Francisco Bay Area: Senior Engineering Manager
Aug 2013 - Present

1. AI for Products:
Optimize the experience of Users, Creators and Advertisers through Content and User Recommendation/Growth, Advertisement, Content Creation, Integrity/Safety and Copyright Protection.

2. VR, Video and 360 Media:
Led a group to build services to power 360 videos and photos at Facebook and Oculus by using Deep Learning and Computer Vision technologies, e.g., saliency prediction, a platform for Deep Learning data generation, model training and productization, 360 Media Insights, and (open source) next generation of video encoding and transform techniques.

3. Meta Computer Vision Platform:
Designed and developed the platform to enable teams in the company to train vision-based ML models without requiring the knowledge in computer vision or ML. The platform has been used by many teams and is powering hundreds of models on billions of photos and videos every day.

4. Instagram Machine Learning and Recommendation Systems:
(1) Founded and led the Instagram Machine Learning team. Awarded for Best Performance at Instagram.
(2) Built the first 2 end-to-end Machine Learning systems from scratch for Instagram which laid the foundation of Machine Learning and Personalization efforts at Instagram, and are powering multiple products at Instagram.
(3) Built a rule-based recommendation system, the first generation of data infrastructure, Instagram Interest Graphs and Notification Ranking system.
Adobe San Jose, CA: Computer Scientist
May 2011 - Aug 2013

Responsibilities-Creation of Photoshop Features:
Development/Implementation of Algorithms and System Architecture/Integration.

1. Technologies/Areas:
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Image/Video Processing, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Statistics and Parallel Computing.

2. Projects:
(1) Mainly focused on the following 4 Photoshop features:
Auto-Image Adjustment, Image Deblurring, Video Panorama and Video Stroboscopic Effect.

(2) Contributed to the following features:
Quick Selection, Lens Correct, Photo Merge, Color Range, High Density Per Inch (HDPI), Sharpen and Deco Pattern.

(3) Accelerated and improved the performance of algorithms in Photoshop through code/algorithm optimization, CPU-based parallel computing, and GPU implementation, such as graph-cut, bilateral filtering, video feature extraction/tracking and image denoising, etc.
Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, NJ: Intern
Feb 2010 - Apr 2010

1. Technologies/Areas:
Video Tracking and Registration.

2. Projects:
(1) Developed a novel algorithm for tracking and registering objects in video stream based on graphical models, and achieved high tracking and registration accuracy.

(2) Implemented two track fusion algorithms for tracking objects in video stream based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) rules.

(One patent and 1 technical report came out of the work.)