Fang Chen
Applied Research Scientist at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolFang Chen is an applied research scientist in Palo Alto with 14 years of experience building ML-driven products across enterprise and consumer domains. Currently at Meta, he focuses on search and feed ranking, NLP, and personalization, bringing research rigor to production-scale systems. His background spans time-series and anomaly detection, optimization, and simulation from roles at Cisco, NIO, and Bosch, including an invention disclosure for network anomaly detection. Fluent in iOS/Swift, Objective-C, Flutter and Python, he also experiments with DSPy, OpenUSD and visionOS—bridging mobile, signal processing, and generative AI. He holds a PhD in Operations Research and a master’s in Mathematics and Statistics, which underpin a strong quantitative approach to ML architecture. Less obvious: he repeatedly translates academic methods into deployed services that handle high-dimensional, real-world data at scale.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Mathematics and Statistics, Master's Degree, Mathematics and Statistics at University of MinnesotaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Operations Research at Lehigh UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Transportation and Highway Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Transportation and Highway Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (23)
ios10
windows10
cross-platform10
desktop10
android10
macos10
flutter10
web-framework9
mobile9
material-design9
dart9
skia8
mobile-game8
app-framework8
mobile-development8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jeffcarp/algorithms-in-objc
Apr 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 5 months
mathcomputer-science-algorithmsobjective-csciencecomputer-science
genu1/child
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
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