Yang Yang

Engineering Manager, OpenSearch AI at AWS

Yang Yang, AI R&D Manager for Amazon Web Services OpenSearch in China, is responsible for implementing machine learning capabilities in the open-source search and analytics engine OpenSearch. He also serves as maintainer for multiple plugins within OpenSearch, including ml-commons and neural. The opensearch-neural-sparse series of models he spearheaded has consistently ranked first on Hugging Face's sparse retrieval model leaderboard for several consecutive years. The team's research interests include semantic search, generative intelligent analysis, and search engine infrastructure.