Summary
Dongqi Su is a software architect and ML scientist with 10 years of experience building production-grade language and recommendation systems across industry and academia. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI, he previously co-led the NL-to-database agent for Azure OpenAI, contributed to GitHub Copilot, and designed high-performance agents for fraud detection at Microsoft. His research and engineering work produced the Dual Transformer Encoder used across Azure Cognitive Services, Copilot Studio, and Dynamics 365, and he has built training-data and model pipelines for large-scale search and ML products. With degrees in Computer Science (UIUC) and Computational Linguistics (UW) and early HCI and community-detection research at EPFL and UIUC, he blends deep linguistic insight with systems-first engineering. Notably, he moves fluidly between research and production, turning novel language representations into scalable services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computational Linguistics, MS Computational Linguistics at University of Washington
Exchange student Computer Science, Exchange student Computer Science at EPFL
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, teochew chinese, Chinese, Spanish