Yu Shi is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta with 13 years of experience bridging scientific computing, data analytics, and AI. Trained as a mechanical engineer with a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison, he transitioned from combustion, CFD and engine optimization research into industrial data science and production ML—leading data teams and building disruptive engineering solutions at Phillips 66 before joining Meta. His expertise spans optimization, adaptive numerical solvers, GPU-accelerated simulation, and turning complex physical models into scalable ML systems. Based in Houston, he brings a rare combination of deep domain knowledge in hydrocarbon fuels and practical ML engineering at scale, often leveraging scientific computing tricks in production pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.E., Mechanical Engineering, M.E., Mechanical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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