Qi Yang
X Research Science & Engineering at X, The Moonshot Factory
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQi Yang is a research scientist and engineering leader with a decade of experience applying machine learning, optimization, and data mining to real-world problems across industry and academia. A PhD candidate at MIT IDSS, Qi has driven research and product-grade ML at Meta, led research at Themis AI, cofounded a YC-backed stealth AI startup, and now works on high-risk, high-reward projects at X’s Moonshot Factory. His technical breadth spans pretrained language models, deep reinforcement learning, and evolutionary computation, with hands-on experience building production detection models and large-scale time-series analyses. Notably, Qi pairs rigorous theoretical work in dimensionality reduction and signal processing with practical impact—delivering >95% performance on abuse-detection tasks and analyzing behavior across tens of millions of users. Based in Cambridge, he seeks roles that translate advanced analytics into deployable systems that solve hard societal problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA; Bachelor of Science Mathematics; Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA; Bachelor of Science Mathematics; Economics at University of Southern CaliforniaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Social Engineering and Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Social Engineering and Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (64)
pytorch10
mixture-of-experts10
inference10
multimodal10
korean-nlp10
deepspeed10
compression10
evaluation9
distributed-training9
transformers9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
discord-bot9
gpu9
data-parallelism9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Desein-Yang/NCNES
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Desein-Yang/Desein.github.io
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:76 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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