Summary
Xiaoting Li is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a PhD from Penn State and nine years of experience building ML systems that bridge deep learning, graph representation learning, and AI security. She has driven research and production initiatives at Visa and now Samsung Ads, focusing recently on deep tabular learning, recommendation systems, and generative AI for real-world business problems. Her background includes academic collaborations at EPFL and internships at ByteDance, reflecting a strong mix of theoretical rigor and applied engineering. Notably, her work emphasizes security-aware ML—an uncommon but increasingly critical lens when deploying models at scale. You can explore her publications and projects at xiaoting.me.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
visiting student, computer science, visiting student, computer science at University of Strathclyde
PhD, machine learning/deep learning, software security, PhD, machine learning/deep learning, software security at Pennsylvania State University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Security, 3.88/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Security, 3.88/4.0 at University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of China