Hi there 👋
I am Xiaoquan Kong, a passionate and creative developer dedicated to Deep Neural network Systems and Chatbots.
Some facts about me:
- Ex machine learning engineer lead a team at ELE.ME (a subsidiary of Alibaba Group), directly leaded by and report to VP
- Head of conversational AI team. Leading a team of more than 40 people engaged in the research and development of AI assistant systems.
- Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Machine Learning (My page on Google Developer)
- A mentor of TensorFlow team in Google Summer of Code 2022
- Graduated from Chief AI Architect Training Plan by Baidu Huangpu Academy
- TensorFlow Core contributer and TensorFlow Addons Codeowner.
- SuperHero for Rasa (a popular open-sourced deep learning framework for chatbot). Rasa official interviews and reports about me
- Top 4% contributer for Rasa, most Chinese language related functions in Rasa are contributed or tested by me
- [Book] The main auther of Conversational AI with Rasa. Alan Nichol, co-founder and CTO of Rasa, wrote the foreword for us!
- [Book] The main auther of Rasa in Action (in Chinese:《Rasa实战：构建开源对话机器人》). Alan Nichol, co-founder and CTO of Rasa, wrote the foreword for us!
- [Book] The main translator of the Chinese version (《机器学习流水线实战》) of Building Machine Learning Pipelines by O'reilly
As an active community leader, organizer and speaker, I ...
- I am the lead organizer for Shanghai TensorFlow User Group (TFUG), organize or co-organize events that directly influence more than 6000 people every year
- I frequently share my knowledge & thought as a speaker at community events, such as Google TensorFlow Dev Summit Extended, Google DevFest and TensorFlow salons, influence more than 4000 people directly
- Sometimes I am entrusted by Google as a TensorFlow ambassador to go to universities to promote TensorFlow
- I found and manage the Rasa Chinese community, the biggest and well-managed community for Chinese Rasa user