Summary
Hu Xu is a Research Scientist at Meta FAIR with nine years of experience advancing self-supervised learning and meta-learning for vision and language. He pioneered and led foundational data work such as MetaCLIP, which has been adopted across major models and products including DINO, Llama 3, JEPA, MovieGen and smart glasses. His background spans conversational and applied AI from internships at Facebook, AWS, and Tencent, and he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago. Based in Greater Seattle, he blends deep academic rigor with practical deployment experience in robotics, computer vision and SLAM, reflecting a rare mix of foundational research and engineering impact.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Master's degree Microelectronics, Master's degree Microelectronics at Peking University
Chinese, English, French