Summary
Xianyu Chen is an AI research scientist with nine years of industry and academic experience and over four years focused on computer vision, vision-and-language, and few-shot learning. Now at Fasikl, Xianyu progressed from research engineer to research scientist and now AI research scientist, applying PhD-level methods to product-scale problems. Their PhD work at the University of Minnesota produced three top-tier publications investigating human attention in vision-and-language tasks and involved designing large-scale data collection via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Comfortable spanning experiments, data engineering, and model development, Xianyu blends rigorous academic research with practical deployment experience. Colleagues describe them as someone who bridges human-centered evaluation and scalable ML systems, often surfacing insights about attention annotation quality that aren’t obvious from model metrics alone.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University