Zhe Xu
Research Scientist at Meta
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhe Xu is a research scientist with eight years of experience bridging academic rigor and industry impact, currently on Meta's research team after multiple research internships there and at Visa. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and a strong track record of applied research dating back to algorithm engineering work at Alibaba. Zhe's background spans foundational CS research and practical system-building, informed by a continuous trajectory from Fudan and Arizona State to advanced study at UIUC. He repeatedly secured research roles at leading tech firms, signaling an ability to translate novel ideas into production-relevant prototypes. Colleagues describe him as someone who combines deep theoretical insight with empirical evaluation—often surfacing non-obvious model or systems improvements during internships. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he remains active in the academic community (Google Scholar profile) while driving research agendas inside major product organizations.
9 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBechelor, Electronic Engineering, Bechelor, Electronic Engineering at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Scence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Scence at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (25)
similarity8
sentence7
autoencoder7
roberta7
sentence-similarity6
bert6
denoising6
sentence-embeddings6
multilingual6
electra6
graph-representation-learning5
nlp5
natural-language-processing5
datasets5
word-embeddings5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pricexu/STAGER
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 9 months
pricexu/pricexu.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 73 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 3 months
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