Summary
Charlio X is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in San Jose with 11 years of experience building production AI systems for ads and monetization at companies including Meta, TikTok, and TruEra. He combines a PhD-level math background with hands-on expertise in LLMs, agentic AI, graph foundation modeling, and graph neural networks to improve recommendation and risk-control pipelines. At Meta he’s integrating LLMs and agentic workflows into ads recommendation, after applying LLM-driven model quality control at TruEra and graph-based risk models at TikTok. His work spans from supply-chain optimization early in his career to deploying large-scale ML in high-stakes monetization environments, reflecting both research rigor and production discipline. An entrepreneurial technologist and algorithmic trader at heart, he brings quantitative depth and a penchant for turning advanced math into measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at Duke University
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Zhejiang University
Chinese