Yi Zhuang
Senior Staff Machine Learning Software Engineer, Twitter

Yi Zhuang is a senior staff machine learning software engineer at Twitter, where he leads a team building a platform for working with ML models. He works on uniting ML practitioners around a single ML platform, bringing consistency to ML practices at Twitter. Previously, Yi led a team to develop a trillion-document-scale distributed search engine at Twitter. Yi holds an MS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He loves cats and enjoys pondering over all things technical and logical.

Sessions

1:40pm–2:20pm Thursday, October 31, 2019

Location: Grand Ballroom C/D

Improving the health of public conversations on Twitter with TensorFlow

Text, language, speech

Li Xu (Twitter), Yi Zhuang (Twitter)

When people discuss on Twitter, the company wants to ensure that they can have respectful conversations with genuine people. Twitter relies on machine learning to improve the health of public conversations and information integrity. Li Xu and Yi Zhuang examine how Twitter uses TensorFlow to detect abusive, toxic, and spammy content and promotes healthy conversations on the platform. Read more.