Jiawei Li
Research Scientist at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiawei Li is a research scientist in Palo Alto with 11 years of experience applying ML and large-scale systems to recommendation and monetization problems, currently driving Reels video recommendation and foundational AI efforts at Meta. He brings a deep academic foundation from a PhD in Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford and dual bachelor’s degrees from Peking University, pairing rigorous research methods with product-focused engineering. His background includes hands-on ML roles across industry labs—from Instagram ads ranking and X’s AI residency to high-performance simulation at Chevron—demonstrating an ability to translate novel models into production ranking systems. Known for bridging domain expertise in energy and economics with applied machine learning, he often tackles interdisciplinary problems that benefit from both theoretical rigor and engineering pragmatism.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Energy Resources Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
representations9
bert8
glyph8
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
question-answering2
relation-extraction2
multi-agent1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jiweil/Sequence-Models-on-Stanford-Treebank
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 7 comments in 1 year 8 months
jiweil/Hierarchical-Neural-Autoencoder
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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