Julaiti Alafate
Research Scientist, Machine Learning at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulaiti Alafate is a machine learning-focused software engineer and research scientist with 11 years of experience, currently co-founding and serving as CTO of Skillset after leading Instagram Ads Core Optimization as a Staff Research Scientist at Meta. He specializes in building adaptive ML systems that span the full lifecycle—data pipelines, recurrent training, large-scale inference, and production monitoring—while designing against distribution shift and feedback loops that can corrupt training signals. Comfortable working across infrastructure and product, he has driven revenue and infra savings through ranking, supply, and delivery optimizations in ad systems. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and early product-engineering experience at Google and graph-database startup TigerGraph, he combines deep research rigor with hands-on production delivery. An understated strength is his focus on operationalizing robust ML safeguards so models improve business metrics without destabilizing live systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Fudan University
English, Chinese, uyghur
Github Skills (28)
datasets9
boosting9
machine-learning8
artificial-intelligence8
jupyterlab-extension7
deep-learning7
command-line-tool6
jupyter-notebook6
neural-network6
dokuwiki6
aws6
amazon6
jupyterlab6
python6
spark-ml6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arapat/bathymetry-analysis
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:129 commits, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
arapat/sparrow
Mar 2018 - Jan 2021
Sparrow is a boosting algorithm implementation that is optimized for training on very large datasets and/or in the limited memory settings.
Contributions:765 commits, 22 PRs, 672 pushes in 2 years 11 months
memorydeep-learningmachine-learningtrainingneural-network
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