Liang Xu
Software Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiang Xu is a seasoned software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building mobile and web systems at companies including Facebook, Instagram, Calibra, and Pandora. He combines deep expertise in Java/C++ with a strong research background in security analysis and vulnerability detection from a PhD at UC Davis. His academic work produced scalable static and dynamic analyses for Android apps and novel binary control-flow techniques, informing practical defenses against data leaks and kernel rootkits. At Instagram he helped grow the product from 400 million to 1 billion users, and at Facebook continues to apply security-minded engineering to large-scale product challenges. Comfortable across mobile, backend, and security domains, he has a track record of turning rigorous research into production-quality tooling and mitigations. Notably, his early research analyzed over 122K Android apps, uncovering widespread privacy leaks that influenced real-world app security practices.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Security, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Security at Wuhan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (16)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
tensorflow8
neural-network7
data-science7
ml5
deep-neural-networks5
kitti5
3d-object-detection4
pytorch3
object-detection3
kitti-dataset3
point-cloud3
autonomous-driving2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
abysmalocean/abysmalocean.github.io
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
abysmalocean/3D_tracking
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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