Youjie Li
Staff Research Scientist, Tech Lead at ByteDance
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoujie Li is a Staff Research Scientist and tech lead with nine years of experience building distributed ML systems and production AI tooling, currently leading efforts at ByteDance from Bellevue. A PhD alumnus of UIUC with hands-on postdoc work on PyTorch distribution at Meta, he bridges deep research with production engineering—authoring veScale, an open-source project for scalable model serving. His background includes research internships at Microsoft Research and IBM and a history of shipping distributed training and serving infrastructure at scale. Colleagues value him for turning cutting-edge research into reliable, deployable systems and for mentoring teams through complex ML systems design. An uncommon strength is his founder-builder mindset: he not only designs architectures but also implements the core tooling that teams use to run models in production.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science with Thesis ECE, Master of Science with Thesis ECE at Texas A&M UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) ECE, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ECE at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (20)
python10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu10
autograd10
neural-network10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
manifold9
co-simulation8
cluster-computing8
mpi8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
msr-fiddle/harmony
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 17 days
volcengine/veScale
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
A PyTorch Native LLM Training Framework
Contributions:28 reviews, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 months
llm-trainingpytorch
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