Shen Xu
Research Scientist at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShen Xu is a research scientist with 15 years of experience focused on AI acceleration and end-to-end ML infrastructure for AR/VR at Meta, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and began his career with internships at NVIDIA and Facebook, blending deep academic research with production-oriented engineering. At Meta he bridges low-level performance optimization and high-level ML frameworks to make immersive applications run efficiently on constrained hardware. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic researcher who moves algorithms from prototype to deployable systems, with a track record of tackling the engineering gaps between models and real-time AR/VR delivery.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at McGill University
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
python10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
gpu10
neural-network10
embedded10
acceleration9
autograd9
tensorflow9
mobile9
tensor9
gpu-acceleration9
lf8
facebook8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rpeng233/cycleToggling
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
sxu/executorch
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch
Contributions:49 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
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