Lee-Ming Zen
Computer Geek
- Location
- Seattle, Washington (Greater Seattle Area)
- Industry
- Computer Software
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Lee-Ming Zen's Overview
- Current
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- Software Development Manager at Amazon
- Past
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- Principal Developer at Bluefin Labs
- Lead Applied Researcher at Microsoft
- Applied Researcher at Microsoft
- Researcher at Stanford University
- Software Developer in Test Intern at Microsoft
- Finance Specialist at Symantec
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Stanford University
- Recommendations
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1 person has recommended Lee-Ming
- Connections
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500+ connections
Lee-Ming Zen's Summary
AWS – Edge Services is looking for the best talent on the planet! Does that describe you? Edge Services is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. Edge Services builds sophisticated, resilient distributed systems that can cope with extreme failure conditions, large scaling events, and high concurrency. We work on deep, technical problems that span a variety of core topics in computer science ranging from databases to networking to distributed systems to numerical analysis to security. At the moment, we are looking for a variety of individuals; Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Research Scientists, Support Engineers, Systems Engineers, Product Managers and more! If you want to provide services that are core to all modern Internet businesses, and you want learn what it takes to grow and operate a global business at our scale, then send us an e-mail at cloudfront-jobs@amazon.com to learn more or contact me directly.
Lee-Ming Zen's Experience
Software Development Manager
Amazon
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AMZN; Internet industry
March 2012 – Present (1 year 8 months)
Managing a software development team that builds and operates a 100% available, highly-scalable, globally distributed DNS service.
Principal Developer
Bluefin Labs
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
February 2011 – February 2012 (1 year 1 month) Cambridge, MA
Built large-scale platform infrastructure to support data analytics for the Signals family of products. Developed algorithms to improve profiling of social media authors.
Lead Applied Researcher
Microsoft
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry
June 2009 – February 2011 (1 year 9 months)
Led a team of applied researchers and data miners in the areas of behavioral targeting and audience intelligence. Worked on algorithm development, data analysis, and data enrichment. Partnered closely with business teams and account teams.
Applied Researcher
Microsoft
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry
October 2006 – June 2009 (2 years 9 months)
Rapid prototyping and algorithmic research work in the realm of advertising, especially digital/online advertising.
Researcher
Stanford University
Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry
April 2004 – September 2006 (2 years 6 months)
Member of the Stanford Logic group. Primarily spent time investigating and implementing logical spreadhsheets. Also worked on semantic e-mail and general game playing.
Software Developer in Test Intern
Microsoft
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry
June 2005 – September 2005 (4 months)
Developed automation tools to assist in improving software quality.
Finance Specialist
Symantec
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry
June 2003 – September 2003 (4 months)
Streamline workflow processes and build workflow frameworks.
Lee-Ming Zen's Honors and Awards
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Microsoft C&O Harmony Award
Microsoft- 2010
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Microsoft Technical Leadership Select
Microsoft- 2010
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Microsoft Technical Leadership Select
Microsoft- 2009
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Microsoft Gold Star Award
Microsoft- 2008
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Microsoft College Select
Microsoft- 2008
Lee-Ming Zen's Patents
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UTILIZING IMAGES AS ONLINE IDENTIFIERS TO LINK BEHAVIORS TOGETHER
- United States Patent Application 20120155776
- Filed December 21, 2010
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Techniques to organize test results
- United States Patent 7333962
- Issued February 19, 2008
Inventors: Lee-Ming Zen -
APPLYING IMAGE-BASED CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISEMENTS TO IMAGES
- United States Patent Application 20090148045
- Filed December 7, 2007
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TRACKING ONLINE ADVERTISING USING PAYMENT SERVICES
- United States Patent Application 20090216579
- Filed February 22, 2008
Inventors: Lee-Ming Zen, Zack Hilton, Trevor Norrington -
PROVIDING A USER DRIVEN, EVENT TRIGGERED ADVERTISEMENT
- United States Patent Application 20090144124
- Filed November 30, 2007
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RANDOMIZED AUCTIONS WITH PRIORITY OPTION
- United States Patent Application 20120158522
- Filed December 17, 2010
Inventors: Lee-Ming Zen, Hamid Nazerzadeh, Markus Mobius, Gregory Lewis, Elisa Celis
Lee-Ming Zen's Publications
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PrediCalc: a logical spreadsheet management system
- 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases
- 2005
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Semantic Email Addressing: Sending Email to People, Not Strings
- AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium on Integrating Reasoning into Everyday Applications
- 2006
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Semantic Email Addressing: The Semantic Web Killer App?
- IEEE Internet Computing
- January 2009
Lee-Ming Zen's Education
Stanford University
MS, Computer Science
2005 – 2006
Stanford University
BS, Computer Science
2002 – 2006
Lee-Ming Zen's Additional Information
Lee-Ming Zen's Skills & Expertise
- Java
- C++
- C
- C#
- .NET
- Python
- Ruby
- Lisp
- Perl
- SQL
- MapReduce
- Distributed Systems
- Automated Reasoning
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Mining
- Management
- Algorithms
- Big Data
- Hadoop
- Databases
- Web Services
Lee-Ming Zen's Languages
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Chinese
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Spanish
(Elementary proficiency)
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