Hongyu Xiong - Senior Engineering Manager at Instagram

Hongyu Xiong

Senior Engineering Manager at Instagram

Mountain View, California, United States

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Summary

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Hongyu Xiong is a senior engineering leader with ~12 years combining industry and academic experience, currently heading LLM-driven recommendation and search initiatives at Meta after leading content intelligence and ads delivery teams at TikTok. He blends deep research chops—2 Nature Physics papers, ~1000 citations, and 50+ patents (16 US)—with hands-on productization of multi-modal LLMs, large recommendation models, and privacy-aware ad systems at scale. Known for driving generative and multi-modal Recsys (LLM4Rec, CLIP/BLIP integrations) and practical SFT/RLHF exploration, he repeatedly bridges novel ML research with production GPU training and serving stacks. A Forbes China 30U30 honoree, Hongyu’s background in applied physics (PhD, Stanford) and bioinformatics/IR interests give him a unique systems+scientific perspective that surfaces unconventional signals for recommendation and search.

10 years of coding experience

7 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Rice University

Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Peking University

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Physics at Stanford University

Chinese, English

Github Skills (23)

genome9

assembler8

attention-mechanism8

file-format8

bioinformatics8

tensorboard6

jupyter-notebook5

deep-learning5

architecture5

artificial-intelligence5

jupyter4

replication4

tensorflow3

pytorch3

notebook3

Programming languages (3)

C++CPython

Github contributions (5)

bigict/ARCS

Jul 2015 - Nov 2015

Contributions:141 commits, 8 pushes in 4 months

bigict/alphafold

Mar 2023 - Sep 2024

Contributions:3 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months

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