Dickens Li
Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDickens Li is a Senior Research Engineer with eight years of experience building and deploying AI systems across edge, cloud, and GenAI platforms. Currently at Google DeepMind, he focuses on Gemini audio, Gemini Live, JAX optimization, and model serving—bringing production-grade research to real-time audio and large-model serving pipelines. His background spans YouTube ads analytics, edge AI chip infrastructure, and time-series forecasting, plus a brief entrepreneurial stint co-founding a hiring marketplace that scaled candidate discovery. Trained in CS (MS, UCSD) and math/engineering (BS, CUHK), he blends rigorous information-theory research with hands-on systems engineering to optimize model performance end-to-end. Notably, he moves between low-level inference optimizations and high-level platformization, making him effective at turning research insights into reliable production services.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (24)
authentication9
lambda-functions9
aws-lambda9
api9
serverless8
cli8
aws-amplify8
amplify-cli8
aws8
storage8
amplify8
aws-appsync8
aws-fargate8
nodejs7
lambda7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Dickensli/Bayesian_seq_to_seq_time_series_prediction
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:48 commits in 1 month
Dickensli/CUDA_VGGNET16
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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