Mao Li
Senior Applied Scientist, Rufus at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMao Li is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon’s Rufus team in Seattle with 11 years of experience building production-scale machine learning systems and conversational models. He has driven advances across Alexa speech recognition, product knowledge graphs, and now is leading development of a shopping-focused LLM designed for highly personalized, interactive user experiences. Mao holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois Chicago and has published work on representation learning for emotion recognition that was submitted to ICASSP. Known for a pragmatic research-to-production approach, he blends deep academic rigor with product-minded engineering to move novel models into real user-facing features. Outside of work he signals a continual learning mindset with the motto “stay hungry, stay foolish.”
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Communication and Information Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Communication and Information Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English
Github Skills (127)
transformers10
python10
windows10
groq10
deep-learning10
image-generation10
gpu10
lora10
gemma10
quantization10
distributed-training10
chatgpt10
linux10
tauri10
multimodal10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Green-li/ChatGPT-Next-Web
May 2023 - Feb 2025
One-Click to deploy well-designed ChatGPT web UI on Vercel. 一键拥有你自己的 ChatGPT 网页服务。
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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