CV

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Contact Information

Name Mingxuan (Clark) Ju
Professional Title Senior Research Scientist
Email mju@snap.com
Location 110 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
Website https://jumxglhf.github.io

Professional Summary

Senior Research Scientist at Snap Research working on generative recommendation and agentic user understanding. I design large-scale generative models and LLM-driven agentic systems that power production recommender systems at Snapchat.

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Bellevue, WA

    Senior Research Scientist
    Snap Research at Snap Inc., manager Dr. Neil Shah
    • Design and integrate LLM-driven agentic systems to enhance user profiling and understanding within production recommendation.
    • Translate research outcomes into production impacts at multiple surfaces at Snap including Content, Ads, and Growth.
  • 2024 - 2026

    Bellevue, WA

    Research Scientist
    Snap Research at Snap Inc., manager Dr. Neil Shah
    • Research and develop large-scale generative models to improve production recommender systems.
    • Mentor research interns and produce research outcomes that deliver both internal product impact and academic publications.
  • 2023 - 2023

    Seattle, WA

    Research Intern
    Snap Research at Snap Inc., supervisors Dr. Tong Zhao and Dr. Neil Shah
    • Efficient GNNs for RecSys, with significant performance improvement (~10%) at only ~1% additional overhead (NeurIPS 2024).
    • Performant multi-task GNNs for user modeling, launched for embedding-based retrieval for friend recommendation (RecSys 2024 workshop).

Education

  • 2020 - 2024

    Notre Dame, IN

    Ph.D.
    University of Notre Dame
    Computer Science & Engineering
    • Advisor: Dr. Yanfang (Fanny) Ye
    • Dissertation: Cost-effective Machine Learning Techniques for Graphs
  • 2019 - 2020

    Cleveland, OH

    M.S.
    Case Western Reserve University
    Computer and Information Science
  • 2015 - 2019

    Cleveland, OH

    B.S.
    Case Western Reserve University
    Computer Science

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    Best Paper Award
    CIKM 2025
  • 2025
    Outstanding Research Assistant Award
    Notre Dame Computer Science & Engineering
  • 2025
    Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Award Nominee
    University of Notre Dame
  • 2023
    Student Scholar
    NeurIPS 2023
  • 2023
    Student Scholar
    AAAI 2023
  • 2021
    Best Paper Award Shortlist
    WWW 2021
  • 2019
    3rd Place Award, FEMH Cup
    IEEE Big Data 2018
  • 2018
    Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors
    Case Western Reserve University

Academic Services

  • Organizer of the Learning on Graphs (LoG) conference mid-north meetup.
  • Conference reviewer / PC member: ICLR 24/25/26; NeurIPS 23/24/25; ICML 24/25; AAAI 22/23/24/25; KDD 22/23/24/25/26; WWW 24; SDM 23/24/25; WSDM 22; ICDM 21/22; AISTATS 25.

Mentorship

  • Sunkyung Lee (Ph.D. student at Sungkyunkwan University & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2026)
  • Sunwoo Kim (Ph.D. student at KAIST & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2026)
  • Zaiyi Zheng (Ph.D. student at University of Virginia, 2024-2025 & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2025)
  • Xingyue Huang (Ph.D. student at University of Oxford & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2025)
  • Xueying Ding (Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2025)
  • Yunzhu Pan (Master’s student at UC San Diego & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2025)
  • Nidhi Hegde (Master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University & Applied Science Intern at Snap Inc., 2025)
  • Geon Lee (Ph.D. student at KAIST & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2025)
  • Jingzhe Liu (Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, 2024-2025 & Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2025)
  • Donald Loveland (Ph.D. student at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2024-2025; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024)
  • Jing Zhu (Ph.D. student at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2024-2025; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024-2025)
  • Ngoc Bui (Ph.D. student at Yale University, 2024-2025; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024)
  • Haitao Mao (Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, 2024-2025; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024-2025)
  • Runjin Chen (Ph.D. student at University of Texas at Austin, 2024; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024)
  • Xinyi Wu (Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024)
  • Dimosthenis Antypas (Ph.D. student at Cardiff University, 2024; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024)
  • Norman Knyazev (Ph.D. student at Radboud University, 2024; Research Intern at Snap Inc., 2024)
  • Zheyuan Zhang (Ph.D. student at University of Notre Dame, 2023-2024)
  • Zhongyu Ouyang (Ph.D. student at University of Notre Dame, 2023-2024)