Derek Xu
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Xu is a research scientist and PhD candidate in Computer Science at UCLA with nine years of industry and research experience spanning deep learning, graph representation learning, generative models, and reinforcement learning. He has interned and worked across leading AI teams at Meta, AWS, and Uber AI, contributing to projects from self-supervised speech encoders and in-context learning for tabular data to time-series foundation models and ads click-through optimization. Derek blends theoretical research with production-minded applied science, evident from papers and system-focused internships (e.g., JPL tooling and embedded firmware earlier in his career). Based in Los Angeles, he moves fluidly between academic research and large-scale engineering problems, often applying information-theoretic and representation learning techniques to real-world product challenges. An under-the-radar strength is his breadth across low-level embedded systems up to large-model applied research, enabling pragmatic solutions that bridge hardware, algorithms, and production systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Torrey Pines High SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (5)
geometric1
graph1
pytorch1
matrix1
pytorch-geometric1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DerekQXu/Chat_App
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
in development
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 9 months
DerekQXu/CS111
Jun 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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