Summary
Jianqiao Li is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade ML and ranking systems, currently working on GKE AI/ML at Google. He led tech efforts on Facebook’s News Feed ranking as a senior engineer and tech lead, improving top-position personalization and coordinating cross-functional teams to balance diverse business objectives. His background blends deep learning, generative models, robotics, and continual learning from graduate research at Duke and robotics MS work at UPenn, giving him uncommon strength in both perception and systems-level ML. He has hands-on experience applying LLMs for auto-labeling and integrity, reinforcement learning, and end-to-end recommendation pipelines. Based in Redmond, he combines research rigor with product-focused engineering, transitioning academic robotics insights into scalable ML infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree (Ph.D dropout) Mechatronics Robotics and Machine Learning, Master's Degree (Ph.D dropout) Mechatronics Robotics and Machine Learning at Duke University
Bachelor's degree Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's degree Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University
Master of Science (M.S.) Robotics, Master of Science (M.S.) Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese