Xilun Chen
Research Scientist at Meta
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXilun Chen is a research scientist at Meta with 13 years of experience focused on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, particularly the interaction between knowledge and language. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell and has internships across top research labs including Microsoft Research, Facebook, IBM Almaden, and Google, reflecting a strong track record bridging academia and industry. His recent work centers on knowledge-intensive NLP—open-domain question answering, neural retrieval, and retrieval-augmented language models—bringing practical retrieval systems into large-scale language modeling. Known for pursuing the subtle synergy between structured knowledge and contextual language understanding, he blends theoretical rigor with production-minded research. Based in the United States, he combines deep research training with hands-on experience shipping research at scale within leading tech organizations.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (113)
python10
representations10
sequence-to-sequence10
glove10
conformer10
ctc10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
bootstrapping10
transformer-architecture10
pytorch10
facebook10
language-understanding10
sequence10
multilingual9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/dpr-scale
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Scalable training for dense retrieval models.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 9 commits in 9 months
ccsasuke/umwe
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Unsupervised Multilingual Word Embeddings (EMNLP 2018)
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
nlpword-embeddingsembeddingsunsupervisedsentence-similarity
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