Licheng Yu
Senior Staff Research Scientist & Manager at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolLicheng Yu is a Senior Staff Research Scientist and manager at Meta AI with 11 years of experience leading multimodal vision-and-language research and product-facing applications. He has shepherded multimodal pre-training and post-training RL for Llama3/Llama4, and contributed to text-to-image and video-generation efforts that bridge foundation models to commerce and ads. His career spans influential research roles at Meta and Microsoft, including work on UNITER and embodied question-answering published at top venues. A PhD from UNC Chapel Hill with roots at Shanghai Jiao Tong, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering to move cutting-edge multimodal models from lab to production. Less obvious: he routinely pairs large-scale model training with practical downstream applications, making research directly measurable in real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMaster's degree Information Engineering, Master's degree Information Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (49)
pytorch10
modular10
speaker10
comprehension10
listener10
dialog10
datasets10
api10
recurrent-neural-networks9
multimodal9
deep-learning9
image-text9
physics-engine8
interaction8
vision-and-language8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lichengunc/densecap
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
lichengunc/detectron2
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Detectron2 is FAIR's next-generation research platform for object detection and segmentation.
Contributions:68 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
detectronobject-detectionsegmentation
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