Machine Learning Engineer
& Book Author

Wendy is an ML Engineer specializing in search, recommendation, and personalization systems at scale, with 10 years of experience spanning social networks (Twitter/X, Pinterest, Meta), e-commerce (Coupang), and marketplace platforms. She currently works at Airbnb building search and recommendation systems.

Her academic background includes a PhD in Statistics with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, with doctoral research in network sampling and estimation theory. She founded TigerLab AI, an open-source toolkit for LLM safety evaluation, and has taught online courses on Python and machine learning.

Wendy is the author of Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Bridging Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs (Wiley-IEEE Press) and Data Science: Methods and Practice (China Machine Press) — two technical books bridging research and industry practice. Beyond technical work, she is committed to teaching, mentoring, and advancing best practices for scalable, production-grade ML systems.