Shantao Li
Software Engineer, ML at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShantao Li is a machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and production ML, currently working on GenAI at Meta. He has led high-impact NLP and safety efforts at Roblox—raising automated moderation decisioning from 20% to 90% and delivering gains that outpaced four years of prior progress—and built NLP/knowledge-graph capabilities for drug discovery at GSK.ai. His background includes a Stanford postdoc with Jure Leskovec and James Zou focused on biomedical ML, and a Ph.D. in computational biology from Yale, giving him deep domain expertise in healthcare applications of AI. Hands-on across model research, deployment, and team technical direction, he combines academic rigor with measurable product outcomes in large-scale systems. A mentor and educator early in his career, he also brings experience translating complex scientific literature into usable knowledge representations for scientists.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Fudan UniversitySummer School, Summer School at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Yale UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, German, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
gersteinlab/siglasso
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:76 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
gersteinlab/STRESS
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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