Huan Chen
Senior Software Engineer, Instagram, Meta
New York, NY
Email: huanchen94 at outlook dot com |
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I am a Senior Software Engineer at Instagram, Meta, working on the recommendation systems for Reels. I received my Ph.D. in Biostatistics and M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Brian Caffo, where I did research on statistical learning on complex structured data from neuroscience. I received my B.S. in Statistics from Zhejiang University.
Experience
- 2025/1 -, Senior Software Engineer, Meta — Instagram.
- 2022/7 - 2024/12, Software Engineer, Meta — Instagram.
- 2021/6 - 2021/8, Software Engineer Intern, Meta — Instagram.
- 2019/6 - 2019/8, Research Scientist Intern, AT&T Labs.
- 2017/9 - 2022/6, Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University.
Education
- 2022, Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University.
- 2020, M.S. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
- 2017, B.S. in Statistics (Honors), Zhejiang University.
Publications
Autism and Hierarchical Models of Intelligence
Michael A. Levine, Huan Chen, Ericka L. Wodka, Brian S. Caffo, Joshua B. Ewen.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 55(6):2034–2042, 2025.
Michael A. Levine, Huan Chen, Ericka L. Wodka, Brian S. Caffo, Joshua B. Ewen.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 55(6):2034–2042, 2025.
A Multi-Trait Multi-Method Examination of Psychometric Instrument Performance in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Michael A. Levine, Huan Chen, Ericka L. Wodka, Alyssa C. Deronda, Brian S. Caffo, Joshua B. Ewen.
Assessment, 31(4):892–898, 2024.
Michael A. Levine, Huan Chen, Ericka L. Wodka, Alyssa C. Deronda, Brian S. Caffo, Joshua B. Ewen.
Assessment, 31(4):892–898, 2024.
Autism Symptom Presentation and Hierarchical Models of Intelligence
Michael A. Levine, Huan Chen, Ericka L. Wodka, Brian S. Caffo, Joshua B. Ewen.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024.
Michael A. Levine, Huan Chen, Ericka L. Wodka, Brian S. Caffo, Joshua B. Ewen.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024.
Two-Stage Linked Component Analysis for Joint Decomposition of Multiple Biologically Related Data Sets
Huan Chen, Brian Caffo, Genevieve Stein-O'Brien, Jinrui Liu, Ben Langmead, Carlo Colantuoni, Luo Xiao.
Biostatistics, 23(4):1200–1217, 2022.
Huan Chen, Brian Caffo, Genevieve Stein-O'Brien, Jinrui Liu, Ben Langmead, Carlo Colantuoni, Luo Xiao.
Biostatistics, 23(4):1200–1217, 2022.
Structured Joint Decomposition (SJD) Identifies Conserved Molecular Dynamics across Collections of Biologically Related Multi-Omics Data Matrices
Huan Chen, et al.
Preprint.
Huan Chen, et al.
Preprint.
A Statistical Intrusion Detection System for Identification of Botnet Command and Control Hosts
Subramaniam, Huan Chen, Varadhan, Archibald.
arXiv:2108.08924, 2021.
Subramaniam, Huan Chen, Varadhan, Archibald.
arXiv:2108.08924, 2021.
Examining the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of a Rectally Administered IQP-0528 Gel for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: A First-In-Human Study
Amer Al-Khouja, Eugenie Shieh, Edward J. Fuchs, Mark A. Marzinke, Rahul P. Bakshi, Pamela Hummert, Anthony S. Ham, Karen W. Buckheit, Jennifer Breakey, Ethel D. Weld, Huan Chen, Brian S. Caffo, Robert W. Buckheit Jr., Craig W. Hendrix.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 2021.
Amer Al-Khouja, Eugenie Shieh, Edward J. Fuchs, Mark A. Marzinke, Rahul P. Bakshi, Pamela Hummert, Anthony S. Ham, Karen W. Buckheit, Jennifer Breakey, Ethel D. Weld, Huan Chen, Brian S. Caffo, Robert W. Buckheit Jr., Craig W. Hendrix.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 2021.
Lasso Estimation of Hierarchical Interactions for Analyzing Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect
Yu Du, Huan Chen, Ravi Varadhan.
Statistics in Medicine, 40(24):5417–5433, 2021.
Yu Du, Huan Chen, Ravi Varadhan.
Statistics in Medicine, 40(24):5417–5433, 2021.
Are Women Disadvantaged in Academic Radiology?
Rozita Jalilianhasanpour, Huan Chen, Brian Caffo, Pamela Johnson, Elham Beheshtian, David M. Yousem.
Academic Radiology, 27(12):1760–1766, 2020.
Rozita Jalilianhasanpour, Huan Chen, Brian Caffo, Pamela Johnson, Elham Beheshtian, David M. Yousem.
Academic Radiology, 27(12):1760–1766, 2020.
A Length Penalized Probabilistic Principal Curve Algorithm with Applications to Handwritten Digits and Pharmacologic Colon Imaging
Huan Chen, Ethel Weld, Craig Hendrix, Brian Caffo.
bioRxiv, 2020.
Huan Chen, Ethel Weld, Craig Hendrix, Brian Caffo.
bioRxiv, 2020.
Topics in Statistical Learning for Complex Structured Data
Huan Chen.
Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2022.
Huan Chen.
Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2022.