Mingyi Chen is a research scientist at Meta with 11 years of engineering and security-focused research experience, currently contributing to the Core Ads Growth Engineering team. He blends a PhD-level academic background from UC Irvine and specialized training in cyberspace security with hands-on systems work like encrypted storage for RocksDB and domain graph analysis tools. His career spans practical internships and research on proactive defense in software-defined networks, reflecting an international perspective on security problems. Based in Menlo Park, he moves fluidly between deep research and production engineering, shipping features that balance scalability and strong security guarantees. Notably, his trajectory shows a pattern of turning complex cryptographic and graph-analysis research into deployable tools at scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at Sichuan University
Master of Science in Engineering - MSEng, Cyberspace Security, Master of Science in Engineering - MSEng, Cyberspace Security at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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