Summary
Zilin Xiao is an AI research scientist with seven years of experience bridging academic rigor and industry impact, currently contributing to Meta's research efforts. A PhD candidate at Rice with roots in Sichuan University's CS program, he has interned at Microsoft, Tencent Americas, and Meta, focusing on scalable multimodal retrieval, efficient LLM decoding, and analogy-based reasoning. His work at Meta Superintelligence Labs highlights a specialty in test-time scaling and reasoning, while earlier internships emphasize practical systems for large models. Colleagues know him for rapid learning and a knack for turning theoretical ideas into performant prototypes that address real-world inference bottlenecks.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sichuan University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Rice University