Hua Yang is a director of eBay’s search team in Shanghai, where he is part of eBay’s global search product team. He and his team are researching and developing machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to provide the most relevant search experiences for eBay customers. Hua has 20 years of software development experience, including over a decade in digital advertising and search engine development at both Microsoft and eBay. Hua studied software engineering and artificial intelligence and holds a PhD in computer science from Vanderbilt University.