Yao Li
Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYao Li is an applied scientist with 12 years of experience building production ML and computer vision systems for scale, most recently developing generative AI applications for Uber Earners as a staff machine learning engineer. He previously delivered AI and deep learning solutions at Microsoft and helped power the Amazon Go computer-vision shopping experience, giving him end-to-end expertise from research to deployed systems. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide and a background in electrical engineering, Yao blends strong theoretical foundations with practical engineering rigor. Colleagues know him for translating complex vision models into robust product features and for bridging research advances with measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of AdelaideBachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dalian University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (65)
pre-trained-model10
multimodal-deep-learning10
vision-and-language10
multimodal9
mining9
nlp9
high-resolution9
foundation-models9
pytorch9
language-understanding9
sentence-similarity9
high-resolution-net9
language-modeling9
pattern-mining8
scale8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yaoliUoA/MDPM
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 1 year
miningpattern-miningdeep-learningmachine-learningmid
yaoliUoA/evalsaliency
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 day
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