Litao Hu
Senior Research Scientist at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLitao Hu is a Senior Research Scientist based in Seattle with a decade of experience at the intersection of image processing, computer vision, and machine learning, currently building state-of-the-art multimodal models for recommendation ranking and retrieval at Meta. He holds a PhD from Purdue University and has a track record of moving research into production—from under-display camera pipelines and marketplace stamping models to practical scanning and fashion-image algorithms developed during industry internships. Comfortable across academia and industry, he combines deep technical rigor with product-minded engineering to solve real-world visual understanding problems at scale. Offbeat but focused, his GitHub tagline "Why so serious?" hints at a pragmatic curiosity that fuels creative problem solving in high-impact systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Purdue UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese, ChineseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ReakingAd/reakingad
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:64 PRs, 109 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
ReakingAd/lt_blog
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
blog
Contributions:46 commits, 161 PRs, 201 pushes in 4 months
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