Xiangning Chen is an AI research scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience spanning industry research, startups, and academia. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA and a BE from Tsinghua, and has worked on multi-modal and post-training problems at OpenAI before joining Meta’s TBD Lab. Xiangning co-founded Converge Lab, blending product-minded entrepreneurship with deep technical research from stints at Google and DeepMind as a student researcher. He focuses on closing the gap between cutting-edge research and deployable systems, bringing both experimental rigor and practical engineering to large-scale model work. Notably, his career path reflects an uncommon combination of top-tier research placements and hands-on startup leadership.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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