Lewei Lu
Senior Research Director at SenseTime 商汤科技
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolLewei Lu is a Senior Research Director based in Beijing with 13 years' experience building state-of-the-art computer vision and multimodal large language models. Currently leading LLM and multimodal RL research at SenseTime, he previously drove face-recognition, anti-spoofing and cross-platform inference work at Microsoft Research Asia, contributing to top results in multiple international challenges. His hands-on background spans production-facing ML engineering—parallel training pipelines and inference frameworks—plus open-source contributions to Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), including architectural fixes in Inception/BrainScript. Lewei combines deep research pedigree with product-minded engineering, proven by championship outcomes in LVIS and lightweight face-recognition competitions. An earlier career of industry internships and a master’s from South China University of Technology gives him practical breadth across media, vision and large-scale ML systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at South China University of Technology
English, Chinese, putonghua
Github Skills (7)
neural-network10
cntk10
deep-learning10
cplus5
cpp5
python4
csharp4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/CNTK
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:266 commits, 32 PRs, 312 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lewei's commits focused on resolving whitespace issues within BrainScript files and fixing missing untracked files in the GoogLeNet implementation, specifically within Inception blocks. They modified and updated Inception layer definitions and the overall Inception network structure. These changes indicate a focus on the architecture and BrainScript code used in the training.
pytorchpythondeep-learningc-plus-plusmachine-learning
nomi-wei/jQuery-Toast
Mar 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
android-stylemessageboxandroidtoast
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