Yao Li
Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorYao Li is an applied scientist with 12 years of experience building production ML and computer vision systems for scale, most recently developing generative AI applications for Uber Earners as a staff machine learning engineer. He previously delivered AI and deep learning solutions at Microsoft and helped power the Amazon Go computer-vision shopping experience, giving him end-to-end expertise from research to deployed systems. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide and a background in electrical engineering, Yao blends strong theoretical foundations with practical engineering rigor. Colleagues know him for translating complex vision models into robust product features and for bridging research advances with measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (49)
pre-trained-model10
language-modeling10
foundation-models10
language-understanding10
multimodal-deep-learning9
high-resolution9
high-resolution-net9
large-scale9
pattern-mining9
multimodal9
natural-language-processing9
vision-and-language9
sentence-similarity9
transformer-architecture9
nlp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yaoliUoA/MDPM
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Mid-level Deep Pattern Mining
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 1 year
pattern-mining
yaoliUoA/evalsaliency
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 day
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