Xiaofei Du
Co-founder COO at Instill AI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaofei Du is a co-founder and COO with a decade of experience building AI-first products and leading operations from London. With a PhD in Health/Medical Physics and a background in surgical vision and medical image analysis, she bridges rigorous research and product-focused engineering. At Instill AI she combines hands-on full-stack development—contributing demo apps like YOLO-based vision dashboards and a “Cow Counter” example—with strategic company building and hiring. Her early work spans object detection and tracking internships and CT segmentation, reflecting deep domain expertise in computer vision for healthcare. Known for pragmatic refactoring and clear documentation in open-source projects, she blends technical craftsmanship with operator-level execution.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Telecommunications Engineering at Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsMaster’s Degree Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master’s Degree Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityUniversity College London
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
python10
ai10
pipeline10
streamlit10
open-source9
yolov79
yolov49
golang9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
generative-ai8
typescript8
low-code7
no-code7
api7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
instill-ai/instill-core
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
🔮 Instill Core is a full-stack AI infrastructure tool for data, model and pipeline orchestration, designed to streamline every aspect of building versatile AI-first applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 79 reviews, 60 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Xiaofei primarily contributes to the development of a Streamlit-based demo example showcasing YOLOv4 vs. YOLOv7 using VDP. They also refactor code, renaming project terms for better branding. Furthermore, the user added an example for a `Cow Counter` dashboard, indicating their involvement in building data processing applications. The user's changes span across different components of the project, including examples, code refactoring, and documentation updates.
pythondataai-researcherno-codeapi-first
surgical-vision/EndoVisPoseAnnotation
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years 2 months
grand-challengedatasetobject-detectioncomputer-visiongrand
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