Summary
Alexia Xu is a Senior Software Engineer in Palo Alto with 10 years of experience specializing in video deep understanding, deep learning, and search ranking systems. She has built production ML and retrieval features at Google after earlier research-focused work as an intern at Facebook AI Research, combining strong research foundations from Stanford (MS CS, AI) with practical engineering at scale. Her background in chemistry (BSc and MA) gives her an analytical, experimental approach to model design and data-driven problem solving. Known for bridging research and product, she focuses on turning complex video understanding models into performant, scalable ranking features in large-scale systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Chemistry, Bachelor of Science Chemistry at Peking University
Master of Arts Chemistry, Master of Arts Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis
Master of Science - MS CS with AI specialization, Master of Science - MS CS with AI specialization at Stanford University
English, Chinese