Liqi Xu
Research Scientist at Facebook
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiqi Xu is a research scientist at Facebook with 11 years of experience building systems for large-scale data processing and query optimization. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIUC where his work focused on accelerating big data workloads, and he previously applied ML and privacy techniques during internships at Tableau and Microsoft (including a local differential privacy project). Based in Mountain View, he blends academic rigor with product-minded research, producing practical systems research that informs production-scale engineering. His background in both CS and math from UW–Madison and hands-on research assistantship during his Ph.D. gives him a strong foundation in algorithmic and systems thinking. Check his personal site (liqixu.github.io) for papers and projects that demonstrate a pattern of turning theoretical ideas into performant implementations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science(Honor) & Math, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science(Honor) & Math at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMiddle School, High School, Middle School, High School at Nanjing Foreign Language SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (3)
storage7
database6
sql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
orpheus-db/implementation
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
OrpheusDB
Contributions:73 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 1 month
sqldatabasestorage
orpheus-db/orpheus-db.github.io
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 8 months
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