Weidong Xu
Research Scientist at Meta
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeidong Xu is a research scientist in Boston with eight years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computational science and experimental biology. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology and an S.M. in Computational Science from Harvard, and applies deep learning and data-driven methods to real-world scientific problems at Meta. His background includes hands-on work on super-resolution imaging and programmable autonomous blinking at the Wyss Institute and building ML-based road services during a Facebook internship, reflecting an uncommon blend of wet‑lab expertise and production ML engineering. Comfortable moving between research and software development, he delivers reproducible, scalable solutions that connect complex experimental workflows to modern ML tooling.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (S.M.), Computational Science and Engineering, Master of Science (S.M.), Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Biology at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (49)
bayesian-deep-learning9
genes9
genomes9
capstone9
hidden9
genome9
genome-assembly9
dropout9
approximation9
uncertainty8
complexity8
proteins8
density-estimation8
bayesian8
regularization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xuwd11/cs131_hws
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
xuwd11/15-213_labs
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:104 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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