Xiuyu Li
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiuyu Li is a machine learning systems engineer with eight years of experience building efficient, scalable ML infrastructure across industry and academia. Based in Berkeley, she has held research and engineering roles at NVIDIA, Meta, Together AI, and currently xAI, combining hands-on model development with production-focused system design. Her background includes research leadership at Cornell and hands-on work at MIT, giving her a strong foundation in both theoretical ML and large-scale implementation. Xiuyu’s interests center on making ML models and pipelines performant across diverse data types, and she brings practical teaching experience from multiple university courses. Colleagues know her for bridging research rigor with pragmatic engineering—she even quips “in the long run we are all dead,” reflecting a pragmatic, impact-oriented mindset.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics at Cornell University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (92)
transformer10
llama10
cuda10
point-cloud10
pytorch10
evaluation10
inference10
llm10
model-compression9
multimodal9
acceleration9
facebook-events9
deep-learning9
inference-engine9
graph9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CUAI/Non-Homophily-Large-Scale
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
[NeurIPS 2021] Large Scale Learning on Non-Homophilous Graphs: New Benchmarks and Strong Simple Methods
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 months
neurips-2021deep-learningneuripsscalegraph-neural-networks
Xiuyu-Li/blog
Dec 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:69 commits, 86 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 1 month
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