Long Lian
Research Scientist Intern at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolLong Lian is a PhD student in EECS at UC Berkeley and a Research Scientist Intern on Meta’s GenAI Llama pretraining team. He researches multi-modal generative models and efficient deep learning with a focus on medical imaging, combining rigorous academic work with hands-on system building. His background includes research stints at NVIDIA and BAIR, product engineering at Yelp, and full‑stack projects that reached 100k+ users. An active open-source contributor, he implemented a webview-based plot navigator and thumbnail support for the widely used julia-vscode extension, and also builds developer tooling like vivhost. He holds a 4.0 BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and brings 12 years of engineering experience spanning research, production, and UI/front-end work.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Summer College, High School Summer College at Stanford University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (12)
android-webview10
vs-code-extension10
webview210
javascript10
webview10
javascripts10
vscode10
julia9
html9
css9
ide8
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
julia-vscode/julia-vscode
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Julia extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 28 days
Contributions summary:Long primarily focused on developing the plot panel feature for the Julia extension in Visual Studio Code. They implemented a webview-based plot navigator, including the ability to add and display plot thumbnails. Furthermore, the user updated the styles for the thumbnail elements and updated JavaScript file locations. The contributions directly enhance the user interface for visualizing and interacting with plots within the VS Code environment, enhancing the usability of the Julia extension.
visual-studio-codejulia-languagevscodevscode-extensionjulialang
Code-Recipe/AP_Reference_Sheet
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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