Yinheng Li
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYinheng Li is a Senior Applied Scientist with eight years of experience building ML-driven products, currently developing AI features for Copilot+PC at Microsoft. He combines research-grade expertise in LLMs, RAG, search, and question answering from Microsoft Research with practical experience deploying ranking, reinforcement learning, and next-best-action systems at Vanguard. Trained at Columbia (MS Data Science and MS Computer Science) and grounded in financial mathematics, he bridges rigorous modeling and product-focused engineering. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he has a track record of shipping customer-facing AI features at scale and a background that spans bioinformatics research to industry ML roles.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Financial Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Financial Mathematics at Baruch CollegeBachelor's degree Financial Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Financial Mathematics at Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
recommendation-engine10
mahjong10
game-ai10
multi-objective-optimization10
markov-decision-processes10
jupyter-notebook10
rating10
recommender10
reinforcement-learning9
ai-agent9
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning9
artificial-intelligence9
recommendation-system9
operations-research9
python9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Inhenn/Machine-Learning-Paper-Collection
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Inhenn/boxdetect
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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