Danning Xie
Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanning Xie is a research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Lab focused on building open-source RL and agent infrastructure, notably contributing to the torchforge project. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University, where his research explored using LLMs to improve software reliability. With nine years of industry experience, Danning has shipped cross-platform systems and on-device ML tooling in C++, Java, and mobile stacks during internships and research engineering roles. He also worked on LLM-for-code projects at Amazon Q, blending production engineering with cutting-edge research. Known for quickly onboarding into complex codebases and translating research into practical tooling, he maintains an academic homepage and a playful GitHub bio of "Technophobia."
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at South University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (88)
dep10
python10
mxnet10
deep-learning10
gpu10
portable10
statistics10
numpy10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
mutation10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DNXie/DNXie.github.io
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
lin-tan/DocTer
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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