Diya L
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiya L is an R&D engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building next-generation cyberinfrastructure that fuses foundation models, agentic AI, and domain-specific systems. Currently at Esri and serving as an academic editor for PLOS, she bridges cutting‑edge research and practical product work, drawing on a PhD from Texas A&M and a BS from China University of Geosciences (Beijing). Her background includes founding multiple startups and hands‑on software development roles, demonstrating an ability to move ideas from research prototypes to early-stage companies. She has rotated between academia and industry, which gives her a rare fluency in both rigorous experimentation and shipping pragmatic engineering. Based in Beijing with international experience in the United States, she often focuses on scalable AI-infused geospatial and infrastructure tooling. An understated strength is her track record of launching ventures and research projects in parallel, signaling strong execution under uncertainty.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Github Skills (194)
parallel10
ray10
optimization10
multiclass-classification10
reinforcement-learning10
r9
spellchecker9
llm-inference9
netbsd9
nlp9
testing9
python9
deep-learning9
hyperparameter-optimization9
automl9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dyllanwli/my-blog
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:129 pushes in 2 years 4 months
dyllanwli/cta-rl-tqsdk
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:112 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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