Xingquan Guan is a software engineer specializing in machine learning who brings eight years of experience bridging academic research and production systems, now at Meta after leading data science at Zest AI. With a Ph.D. in structural engineering from UCLA and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, he uniquely blends hazard-engineering domain expertise with pragmatic ML product delivery—designing risk-ranking systems adopted by 80%+ of clients and automating pipelines that cut runtimes from a week to a day. His work spans from physics-informed surrogate models and vision-transformer architectures for structural prediction to production-grade model engineering, deployment automation, and team leadership. Known for converting complex research into scalable solutions, he also has a record of accelerating model iteration cycles from days to minutes and reducing data dependence via collaborative-filtering approaches.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's degree Structural Engineering, Master's degree Structural Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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