Jinghao Jia
Research Scientist at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJinghao Jia is a research scientist with eight years of software and research experience, holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UIUC and a BS from UCSD. He focuses on language-based safety to build reliable and secure system software, combining deep research ties with professors at UIUC and Virginia Tech with practical engineering experience. Currently at Meta, he brings a researcher’s rigor to production problems and previously built production-ready tooling such as Pytalite for model evaluation at Rally Health. Comfortable spanning systems, NLP, and ML tooling, he has a track record of turning academic ideas into well-engineered code and reproducible experiments. Based in Bellevue, he blends academic depth with startup-style delivery, often applying language techniques to hard systems safety challenges.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, San DiegoHigh school, High school at The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
modular10
codegen10
mold10
linker10
ffi10
toolchain10
clang10
llvm9
compiler9
jekyll7
rust7
elixir6
busybox6
kernel5
linux-kernel5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rex-rs/rex
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Rex is a safe and usable kernel extension framework that allows loading and executing Rust kernel extension programs in the place of eBPF.
Contributions:24 reviews, 10 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 month
rosalab/linux
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:123 pushes, 8 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
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