Yi Lu
Research Engineer at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYi Lu is a research engineer specializing in language AI and large language model agents, currently contributing to Meta after leading machine learning at Forethought. With 11 years of experience across Apple, Microsoft, and startups, Yi has shipped production ML systems for Siri, Azure database services, and AI-driven customer support. He combines hands-on engineering with academic breadth, having taught ML, deep learning, and NLP as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington. Known for translating research into product-ready solutions, he focuses on question answering, machine reading comprehension, and agent orchestration. Based in Bellevue, WA, Yi bridges research and engineering, moving models from prototypes into scalable, real-world deployments. An understated strength is his track record of operating both infrastructure-critical services and cutting-edge ML pipelines, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Science/Studies, Information Science/Studies at University of Virginia
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Forethought-Technologies/AutoChain
Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
AutoChain: Build lightweight, extensible, and testable LLM Agents
Contributions:12 reviews, 27 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 months
githublu/DeepCluster
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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