Yuning Mao
AI Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuning Mao is an experienced NLP and LLM engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a "Vibe Coder" at Meta and a core contributor to Llama 2 and Llama 3 post-training efforts. Their work spans research and product-focused roles in agents, UI generation, and code generation, reflecting a strong bridge between cutting-edge research and deployable systems. Yuning earned a PhD-level background from UIUC and has interned at leading labs including Microsoft, Facebook AI, and Amazon, specializing in parameter-efficient fine-tuning, open-domain QA, and taxonomy construction. Based in Menlo Park, they combine deep technical rigor with high-volume collaboration—hence the polite caveat about delayed replies—and maintain an active focus on NLP and LLM tooling in open-source and internal projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (57)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
hierarchical10
python10
machine-learning10
ncbi10
facebook10
datasets10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
ctc10
biodiversity10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
morningmoni/GAR
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
morningmoni/HiLAP
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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