Summary
Zenan Li is a research scientist and machine learning engineer with a decade of experience building and commercializing ML systems, currently working at ByteDance after leading R&D at DeepMotion. He specializes in generative AI, computer vision, and real-time model optimization, having shipped large-scale services like Animate 3D with 1.2M+ registered users and demoed work at Snapdragon Tech Summit and ACM SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live!. His background spans full-stack engineering, biometric multimodal research, and production ML pipelines—bridging paper reproduction, data engineering, model fine-tuning, and product-ready prototypes. Based in San Jose, he combines academic rigor from a CS master's with hands-on product impact, and has a particular knack for turning research prototypes into scalable cloud/API/mobile services.
10 years of coding experience