Lei Yuan
Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at Meta
London, England, United States
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Top SchoolLei Yuan is an engineering manager in machine learning with 11 years of experience building applied ML systems at scale, currently leading teams at Meta after senior roles at Kwai and Microsoft. He holds a PhD in computer science from Arizona State University with research roots in structured sparse learning and bio-medical data mining, bringing a strong research-to-production track record. Lei excels at translating advanced statistical models into robust, product-ready solutions across advertising and consumer platforms. Based in London, he combines technical depth with people leadership, mentoring cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact. A detail people might miss: his academic work on structured sparsity informs practical feature-selection and model-compression strategies he applies in production ML pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Radio and Television, 89.1/100, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Radio and Television, 89.1/100 at Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 4.0 at Arizona State UniversityLuoyang City, First Senior High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
monitoring10
instrumentation10
security10
sql10
intrusion-detection10
operating-system10
analytics9
app-icon6
data-structures5
java5
kotlin5
trinitycore4
cpp4
singing3
music3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HandIeNeeded/Retired
Dec 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:99 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
HandIeNeeded/ACM
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:254 pushes in 11 months
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