Li 李力
Software Engineer at Meta
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Li is a software engineer and machine learning researcher with 11+ years of experience building recommendation and discovery systems at Meta and Google and publishing impactful ML research across differentiable programming, program synthesis, GNNs, reinforcement learning and quantum computing. A Kaggle Master ranked in the global top 85, he combines competition-honed modeling instincts with production experience improving YouTube Shorts, Facebook and Instagram feed recommendation pipelines across retrieval, ranking, diversity and cold-start. His academic roots include a PhD applying ML to density functional theory and contributions to Google Research numerical solvers, reflecting a rare blend of physics-driven research and practical engineering. Li is also an active open-source contributor (scikit-learn, Google Research) who thrives on zero-to-one initiatives and translating novel algorithms into scalable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Weiyu High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at Fudan UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Chinese, Shanghainese
Github Skills (4)
machine-learning10
numpy10
python10
scientific-computing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google-research/google-research
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Google Research
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:34 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Li appears to be contributing to a numerical solver for the Schrodinger equation, focusing on a 1D system. Their initial commit introduces the `solver1d` directory, including a Python file (`single_electron.py`) defining solvers and potentials. Subsequent commits refine the code, including computing kinetic matrices using pure NumPy functions and adding a setup file. Additionally, the user has contributed to other related repos.
googlemachine-learningai
aikinogard/dm2linear
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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