LI XIN is a Staff Algorithm Engineer based in Hong Kong with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industrial AI at top tech firms. With a PhD from CUHK and roles spanning Alibaba, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Tencent AI Lab, and MSRA, he specializes in NLP, speech, and semantic understanding, taking research prototypes into large-scale production. He progressed through research intern positions into senior and now staff-level algorithm engineering at Alibaba, demonstrating both deep technical rigor and product-focused impact. His background includes teaching discrete mathematics and digital systems, hinting at a strong theoretical foundation that complements his applied ML work. Notably, his career path reflects a steady shift from research-oriented internships toward leadership in applied algorithms within China’s major internet and AI players.
10 years of coding experience
Master, Linguistics, Master, Linguistics at Peking University
Exploiting BERT for End-to-End Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (W-NUT@EMNLP 2019)
Contributions:63 commits, 4 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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