Yifeng Ding
Research Scientist IV at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifeng Ding is a CS PhD student at UIUC specializing in training code-generation agents, with six years of research and industry experience across top AI labs. He has held research and applied scientist roles at Meta (FAIR CodeGen), Google Research, and AWS AI Labs, bringing hands-on experience in large-model development and graph- and generative-AI research. At UIUC and previously at Tsinghua, he blends deep academic rigor with practical system-building, focusing on making code agents more reliable and useful. His internships at industry-leading AI teams signal strong competence in scaling research prototypes toward production-quality model work. Based in Champaign, IL, he maintains an active research pipeline and a personal site showcasing his projects and publications. A not-obvious strength is his cross-institutional experience accelerating model-centric engineering from research ideas to deployed developer tooling.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (23)
compression8
pytorch7
acl7
machine-learning7
phonetics7
gpu7
optimization7
deep-learning6
computational-linguistics6
mixture-of-experts6
inference6
natural-language-processing5
llm5
large-language-models5
javascript4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
natedingyifeng/natedingyifeng.github.io
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:154 pushes in 2 years 10 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
ise-uiuc/xft
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 comments, 3 issues in 5 months
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