Xilai Li
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXilai Li is a Senior Applied Scientist with nine years of experience at the intersection of deep learning and speech AI, currently leading Streaming ASR science for AWS Transcribe. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NC State and has driven research-to-production at AWS and Salesforce across ASR, TTS, VAD, and personalization with language models. His work blends academic rigor—rooted in deep learning, computer vision, and even condensed-matter-trained simulation—with practical deployment of low-latency streaming speech models at cloud scale. Based in Virginia, he is known for taking cutting-edge research from lab prototypes to robust, real-world AWS services.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Condensed Matter Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Condensed Matter Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English
Github Skills (47)
servo10
browser10
rust10
javascript9
webbrowser9
visual-recognition9
densenet8
grammar8
webengine8
cifar1008
resnet7
backbone7
efficientnet6
deep-learning6
mobilenet6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xilaili/AOGNet
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
deep-learninggrammarrecognitionvisual-recognition
xilaili/Library-room-booking
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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