Huiji Gao

Huiji Gao

Senor Engineering Manager - Relevance and Personalization at Airbnb

Awards & Honors

  • Best Paper Award on DeText: A Deep Text Ranking Framework with BERT in CIKM Applied Research Track, 2020

  • LinkedIn Engineering Showcase on “Natural Language Intelligence at Scale” (Top 1 selected in AI Org), 2019

  • Best Model Award for Job Recommendation, LinkedIn Relevance Hackathon, 2016

  • ASU Graduate Education Dissertation Fellowship (Awarded to Top 1 student per school), 2014

  • ASU President’s Award for Innovation (Team Award), 2014

  • The 3rd Place Dedicated Task 2: Next Location Prediction of Nokia Mobile Data Challenge, 2012.

  • Best Performer, in Faceted Blog-Distillation Task Baseline Ranking, TREC Blog Track, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2009

  • “Samsung” Scholarship (Awarded to Top 3 of 500 Students), 2008.

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Student of Beijing, 2007.

  • The Third Prize on “Technology Paper Award” of “Innovation Competition”, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2007.

  • The Third Prize on “Artistic Design” of “Innovation Competition”, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2007.

  • World Top 200 in “Microsoft Imagine Cup - Embedded Development Competition”, 2007.

  • First Prize in “‘INTEL Cup’ - National College Students Embedded System Competition”, 2006.

  • First/Second-grade University Scholarships (Awarded to Top 10% - 15% students), Beijing Univerisity of Posts and Telecommunications, 2003 - 2006.