Shangwen Li
Senior Technical Lead Principal Research Scientist at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShangwen Li is a Senior Technical Lead and Principal Research Scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of industry experience centered on machine learning and computer vision. He has progressed through successive research and technical lead roles at Meta since 2017, shaping production-facing ML systems and guiding research-to-product transitions. Trained with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from USC and earlier degrees from Zhejiang University, he blends deep academic rigor with pragmatic engineering at scale. Known for moving between hands-on research and team leadership, he focuses on deploying robust vision models in large-scale consumer platforms. An understated strength is his sustained internal career momentum at Meta, reflecting consistent impact across research, engineering, and technical strategy.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California (USC), Viterbi School of EngineeringYali High SchoolUniversity of California, Los AngelesM.S Information and Communication Engineering, M.S Information and Communication Engineering at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (2)
spring7
economics6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
muzishw/econ5170
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Econ 5170 @CUHK: Computational Methods in Economics (2018 Spring)
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
econspringcomputationaleconomics
zhentaoshi/econ5170
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Econ5170@CUHK: Computational Methods in Economics (2020 Spring).
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 4 months
springcomputationaleconomics
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