Xin Li is a Senior Research Engineer with 8 years of experience building and deploying ML and multimodal systems, currently advancing MLLMs at OPPO AI Center. With a Master's in Computer Engineering from Boston University, he blends deep research experience—developing efficient MLLM algorithms, multimodal RAG systems, and alignment strategies—with production engineering skills in Java, Python, Golang, C#, and deployment tooling like NCNN and TensorRT. He has driven LLM and diffusion-model applications, high-throughput inference engines, and vision pipelines for commercial products at CloudMinds and NEC Labs. An OpenMMLab committer and quick learner based in Irvine, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on optimization for safety, responsiveness, and reduced hallucinations in large models. A practical polymath across languages and platforms, he often bridges research prototypes to scalable, customer-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science at Sun Yat-Sen University
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Boston University
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