Yuan Xie
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuan Xie is a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft with eight years of experience applying machine learning research to production-scale problems across industry and academia. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington and has a track record of internships and research collaborations at Facebook, Carnegie Mellon, Tsinghua, and Walmart where he built practical systems such as knowledge-distillation frameworks for ads ranking and distributed online tracking algorithms. At Microsoft he progressed from Applied Scientist II to his current senior role, contributing to cognitive services and applied AI efforts that bridge research and product. Yuan’s background includes teaching advanced database and machine learning courses, demonstrating both deep technical expertise and an ability to communicate complex ideas to students and engineers. He also has hands-on embedded systems experience from a startup project that combined C firmware and ML for sports devices, reflecting a rare blend of low-level engineering and algorithmic modeling.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Anhui UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
text-to-speech9
python8
fine-tuning8
reinforcement-learning8
ai8
stable-diffusion8
diffusion-models8
chatgpt8
llm7
openai7
llama7
image-generation7
agent7
gemma5
artificial-intelligence2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Xyuan13/MSRNet
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 7 months
Xyuan13/Video-MTR
Aug 2025 - Sep 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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