Lin Jiang
Research Engineer & Tech Lead, Meta AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLin Jiang is a research engineer and tech lead at Meta AI with four years of professional experience building generative AI systems and applied research features. Prior roles at Pinterest and AWS give them production-grade ads and cloud infrastructure experience, and a CS MS from Northwestern anchors their technical foundation. Lin contributes to open-source GPU programming via Taichi—implementing rendering and algorithms such as order-independent transparency, marching squares, and Poisson disk sampling—demonstrating practical expertise in neural graphics primitives and high-performance Python on GPUs. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, they blend research rigor with hands-on engineering to move experimental models toward scalable product deployment.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Nanjing UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Northwestern University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
gpu-programming10
computer-graphics10
implement9
differentiable-programming9
algorithm9
algorithms9
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
taichi-dev/taichi
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 553 reviews, 211 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Lin contributed to the Taichi project by implementing examples using Taichi's real function feature. They focused on creating examples for rendering and algorithms, specifically order-independent transparency, marching squares, Poisson disk sampling, and the Taichi neural graphics primitives framework. These contributions showcase the use of Taichi for GPU programming and demonstrate the user's ability to apply Taichi to various graphics and algorithm tasks.
gpu-programmingdifferentiable-programmingpythongpucomputer-graphics
lin-hitonami/taichi
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023
Parallel programming for everyone.
Contributions:893 pushes, 466 branches in 1 year 9 months
parallelmap-reduceparallel-programmingparallel-processingparallel-computing
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