Yifan Xu
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Coinbase
Mercer Island, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Xu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Coinbase with 11 years of experience bridging cognitive science research and applied AI, focused on world models and information-driven intelligence. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Science and a BS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, blending rigorous research methods with production ML engineering. At Coinbase he progressed from intern to applied scientist to senior engineer, contributing to research efforts in quantitative and applied settings. Comfortable moving models from prototype to product, he brings a rare mix of academic depth in cognition and hands-on experience deploying AI in fintech contexts. An early-career NLP researcher at Tencent America, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with pragmatic delivery of scalable ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Chinese
Github Skills (57)
line-segment10
edges9
segment8
modality7
capsnet6
representations6
jupyterlab-extension6
dropout5
dynamic-routing5
ray5
jupyter-notebook5
vscode5
deep-learning5
vscode-extension5
bash5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NBGroupp/Google-Neural-Machine-Translation-GNMT
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:16 commits in 6 months
deep-learningtensorflow
yix081/Google-Neural-Machine-Translation-GNMT
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 10 comments in 2 years 1 month
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