Aiwen Xu
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAiwen Xu is a software engineer and Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara with nine years of experience building ML-driven systems that span deep learning, computational neuroscience, AR/VR, iOS, and front-end development. Her research at the Bionic Vision Lab focused on modeling the biological visual system with the goal of restoring sight, and she brings that interdisciplinary perspective to production ML work at Snowflake and prior internships at Google improving Bard quality and optimizing vision transformers for mobile. She combines rigorous academic training (PhD 4.0, summa cum laude undergrad) with hands-on engineering skill across model tuning, distillation, neural architecture search, and real-world application development. Comfortable moving between research prototypes and scalable product systems, she looks for software roles that deliver measurable social impact.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.96/4, summa cum laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.96/4, summa cum laude at New York University ShanghaiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at UC Santa Barbara
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
bionic10
simulation9
neuroscience9
brian8
python8
simulation-framework8
convolutional-neural-networks5
simulator4
backend4
spiking-neural-networks4
deep-learning3
frontend3
computational-neuroscience2
simulate2
science2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ucsb-int5/int5-f19-notebooks
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 month
aiwenxu/pulse2percept
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
A Python-based simulation framework for bionic vision
Contributions:1 push, 7 branches in 4 months
pythonsimulation-frameworkvisionsimulationbionic-vision
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