Summary
Yixing Liu is a Member of Technical Staff at xAI with a decade of experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems for trading and intelligence applications. Previously a quantitative developer at Citadel Securities, he specialized in low-latency options and high-frequency trading, bringing production-grade performance engineering to finance. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from HKUST, with hands-on internships at Jane Street, Facebook (ZippyDB), and Harvard SEAS where he helped develop a drone delivery system. Describing himself as a prompt engineer, Yixing blends curiosity-driven experimentation with rigorous software craftsmanship, comfortable taking calculated risks to accelerate learning. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines research-quality thinking with practical deployment experience across distributed systems and algorithmic trading. Colleagues would note his appetite for uncertainty and a playful approach to solving hard engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Computer Engineering, Exchange Student Computer Engineering at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese