Jiali Duan
Multimodal Generative Modeling Researcher
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJiali Duan is a multimodal generative modeling researcher with 11 years of experience advancing computer vision and foundation-model research at leading tech labs including Apple, Meta FAIR, and Amazon. She bridges deep theoretical inquiry into how multimodal models work with practical, production-grade deployments—spanning diffusion models, multimodal LLMs, and efficient on-device inference. Her work has driven 3D reconstruction and content generation pipelines for gaming and consumer products, and she has a track record of publishing and shipping reusable research components (e.g., PyTorch3D contributions). Based in Palo Alto with a PhD from USC, she uniquely blends academic rigor—award-winning papers in interpretable networks and robot learning—with hands-on engineering that moves models into real-world applications.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at East China University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (48)
nginx8
api8
dashboard8
monitoring8
redis8
mysql8
artificial-intelligence7
visualization7
analytics7
api-gateway7
gateway7
prometheus7
docker7
elasticsearch7
serverless7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xiaochai/xiaochai.github.io
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
my blog
Contributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 203 pushes in 4 years 11 months
my-blog
xiaochai/batman
Sep 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 51 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.