Chen Li
Senior Researcher at WeChat
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Li is a senior researcher leading the applied computer vision team at WeChat, Tencent, with 11 years of experience bridging computer vision and graphics for visual effects and video understanding. He holds a Ph.D. from Zhejiang University under Prof. Kun Zhou and spent nearly five years as a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia, experiences that inform his blend of rigorous research and product-focused engineering. Prior roles include senior research work at Tencent Youtu X-Lab and a stint as a 3D vision algorithm engineer at DJI, giving him practical depth in real-time and camera-based systems. Based in Shenzhen, he is known for translating advanced vision and graphics techniques into deployable features at scale, often working at the intersection of academic novelty and user-facing impact. An understated strength is his long-term collaboration with top labs and industry teams, which helps him navigate both cutting-edge research and large-company product constraints.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang UniversityExchange Student, Computer Science, Exchange Student, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
name-service10
high-performance9
hosting9
administration8
high-availability8
golang7
c-language7
rpc7
cpp6
container-management6
nginx5
websocket5
kubernetes5
docker5
microservices4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
YMChenLiye/cpp_primer
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:241 commits, 230 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
YMChenLiye/cs143
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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