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Xingchen Zhao

Member of Technical Staff at Reflection

San Francisco Bay Area · 1 connection

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About

I’m a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta working on ML Infra, inference performance, and generative AI systems. My work spans CUDA/Triton kernels, sparse attention, production model serving, and agentic evaluation pipelines. Previously, I worked on post-training for multimodal LLMs for controllable video generation at TikTok GenAI, real-time perception models at Amazon Robotics, and generative AI products as an early founding engineer at Thinkverse. I’m especially interested in building AI systems that move from research capability to real-world usefulness — faster inference, better post-training, reliable agents, and tools that change how people build software.

Experience

Machine Learning EngineerMeta
Jan 2025 to Aug 2026
Machine Learning Engineer, GenAITikTok
Jan 2024 to Jan 2025
Applied Scientist InternAmazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Aug 2023 to Dec 2023
Graduate Research AssistantNortheastern University
Jan 2021 to Jan 2023
Volunteer Work ExchangeHelpX Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Sep 2017 to Nov 2017

Education

Northeastern University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning
2021 to 2024
Northeastern University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning
2021 to 2023
University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science
2018 to 2021
University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2018 to 2021
Northeastern University
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering
2022 to 2023
Northeastern University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering
2022 to 2023