Farley Lai
QCT Advanced Tech R&D Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolFarley Lai is a senior staff engineer and researcher with 11+ years building scalable, real-time video understanding and AI systems, currently leading advanced tech R&D at Qualcomm in San Diego. He co-founded Eigen to commercialize efficient multi-stream video reasoning for retail surveillance, turning research into a cloud platform that can scale to thousands of streams with very low per-camera cost. Farley’s work repeatedly set state-of-the-art results in video retrieval, group activity recognition, compositional reasoning, and multi-person tracking while also delivering production POCs and a rule-based compositional detection engine. Comfortable alternating between roles—engineer, project leader, researcher, and even camp host—he blends systems-level engineering (distributed deep learning, memory-optimized stream processing) with applied machine learning for real-world deployments. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and a track record of turning novel algorithms into deployed, cost-efficient products.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science and Information Engineering, GPA 4.0, Rank 4/74, Master, Computer Science and Information Engineering, GPA 4.0, Rank 4/74 at National Central UniversityBS, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, BS, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at National Tsing Hua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and MCS, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and MCS, Computer Science at University of Iowa
Chinese, English, Mandarin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
benchmark10
datasets10
vision-transformer10
onnx10
neural-network10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
keras10
yolov410
python10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
mask-rcnn10
tensorflow10
android-ndk10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
farleylai/notes
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:310 commits, 6 PRs, 304 pushes in 1 year 9 months
farleylai/farleylai.github.io.bak
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:98 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 11 months
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