Saining Xie
Co-Founder And Chief Science Officer at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSaining Xie is a researcher-turned-founder with 12 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and product-driven AI engineering. Currently Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at AMI and an Assistant Professor at NYU Courant, he blends academic rigor with hands-on work building generative AI systems. His career includes research roles at DeepMind, Meta, and Google DeepMind, where he led GenAI efforts and contributed to high-impact teams while authoring peer-reviewed work stemming from a UC San Diego PhD. Comfortable moving between research and deployment, he has a track record of turning cutting-edge models into practical systems and mentoring the next generation of ML practitioners. Based in New York, he brings an unusually broad apprenticeship—multiple elite internships and industry research posts—before founding a startup, signaling both deep technical chops and entrepreneurial drive.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (60)
pytorch10
classification10
pointnet10
machine-learning10
datasets10
deep-learning10
torchvision10
computer-vision10
visual-recognition10
edge-detection10
backbone10
imagenet9
unsupervised-learning9
arxiv9
scene9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/ResNeXt
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
Implementation of a classification framework from the paper Aggregated Residual Transformations for Deep Neural Networks
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pytorchdeep-learningneural-networksresidualtransformations
facebookresearch/PointContrast
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Code for paper <PointContrast: Unsupervised Pretraining for 3D Point Cloud Understanding>
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
understandingunsupervised-learningunsupervisedpretrainingpoint
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