Haoxiang Yu
Research Scientist at Meta
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaoxiang Yu is a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs with 11 years of experience building scalable, multimodal AI systems for wearable devices and smart glasses. His work spans post-training contextual AI and resource-constrained multimodal modeling, drawing on prior machine learning engineering roles at Meta and applied research at Toyota and UT Austin. He holds a PhD-level background in electrical and computer engineering and a strong software development pedigree, including front-end contributions and testing improvements to popular open-source PWA tooling for Magento. Haoxiang combines academic rigor—leading student teams and teaching graduate algorithms—with product-focused engineering, having designed decentralized learning systems for automated driving and deployed chatbots for a Fortune 500 client. He’s comfortable bridging foundation models and embedded sensors to cut research costs and accelerate real-world multimodal applications, often optimizing for limited compute and energy budgets.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Miami University
Github Skills (11)
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enzyme10
jestjs10
pwapp10
magento10
react10
jtest10
testing10
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
magento/pwa-studio
Nov 2017 - May 2022
🛠Development tools to build, optimize and deploy Progressive Web Applications for Magento 2.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:110 reviews, 84 commits, 73 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Haoxiang primarily contributed to the development of front-end components and testing frameworks for a Progressive Web Application (PWA) built with Magento. They added tests for PWA components such as PWALink and DynamicRouteResolver, implemented unit tests, and addressed related issues. The user also focused on code quality through the use of linters, and ensuring code formatting with Prettier.
magentopwa-studiopwa-storefrontveniapwa
michaelyu0123/datingsiteproject
Apr 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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