Yiyu Zheng
Senior Staff Research Scientist Senior TLM at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiyu Zheng is a Senior Staff Research Scientist based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and applied research for large-scale content understanding and brand safety at Meta. He combines deep ML and data-mining expertise with strong software engineering roots—early-career work in smart grid data centers and Java systems shaped his pragmatic, production-first approach. At Meta he progressed from research scientist to TLM, leading cross-product efforts to deliver state-of-the-art LLM solutions for Feed, Reels, Live, and monetization surfaces. His academic work in bioinformatics and novel application of NLP and clustering methods reflects an ability to translate advanced algorithms into domain impact. Comfortable both managing teams and shipping models to production, he’s known for bridging research rigor with operational reliability across high-throughput systems. Fluent in Python and Java and forged across research and industry, he brings a rare blend of algorithmic insight and systems delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Software Engineering, Master of Engineering Software Engineering at Nanjing UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
twitter6
bootstrap5
twitter-bootstrap5
css4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
groundzyy/groundzyy.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:18 pushes in 5 years 3 months
groundzyy/DensityClustering
Sep 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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