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Michael Yang

@michaelyang2

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Lyra Health, improving care-search conversion 18% with personalized provider ranking.

United States
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At Lyra Health, I built Natural-Language Care Search, a two-stage recommendation system that improved search-to-booking conversion by 18%. I fine-tuned domain-specific embeddings to connect members’ everyday language with clinical terminology, lifting retrieval recall@50 by 31%.

I also developed the personalized ranking and constrained re-ranking stages, serving 150K+ ranked queries daily at p95 latency under 300ms. For Enhanced Triage, I shipped a model that reduced misrouted care episodes by 22% and cut time-to-first-appointment by 1.5 days.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), I developed retrieval and ranking components for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and optimized model serving, reducing inference costs by about 35%. Earlier at edX, I designed a real-time adaptive recommender that improved recommendation CTR by 24% and course completion by 8%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Data Scientist

Jul 2016 - Aug 2019 (3 years 1 month)

Designed a real-time adaptive recommender personalizing course and content suggestions, improving recommendation CTR by 24% and course completion by 8%.

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Education

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Northeastern University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

2012 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, completed in 2016.

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Location

United States

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Salary expectations

60k+ USD

Skills

Recommendation Systems
Ranking Systems
Multi Stage Retrieval
Learning To RankDense Retrieval
Candidate Generation
Reranking
Constrained Ranking
Contextual Bandits
Thompson Sampling
Implicit Feedback
Cold Start Mitigation
Large Language ModelsRAGSemantic Search

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