Fanyi Xiao is an AI research scientist based in Menlo Park with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry delivery. Currently at Meta, she previously drove applied ML solutions at AWS and completed a PhD in computer science at UC Davis, building on earlier robotics and mechatronics training from Carnegie Mellon. Her research internships at Facebook AI, NVIDIA, and Disney Research produced CVPR-level work in action detection and weakly-supervised language grounding, reflecting strong computer vision and multimodal expertise. Comfortable moving projects from novel algorithms to production-ready systems, she blends deep technical rigor with applied problem solving. Colleagues describe her as someone who pairs scholarly curiosity with pragmatic engineering to make research impact at scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Central South University
Master of Science (MS), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
PySlowFast: video understanding codebase from FAIR for reproducing state-of-the-art video models.
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