lili-asapp
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SeniorLili Yu is a software engineer and AI researcher based in Seattle with eight years of experience spanning academia and industry. She earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, after completing an MS in EECS and a BS in Physics from Peking University. At ASAPP, she served as NLP Research Scientist and tech lead for real-world AI products, driving dialogue systems, learning from feedback, interpretability, and text summarization. She continued her AI research trajectory at Facebook AI as an AI Research Scientist from 2021 to 2025, before joining Physical Intelligence as a Member of Technical Staff in 2025. Her unique blend of physics training and rigorous ML research, coupled with product-focused leadership, enables her to translate complex research into reliable, scalable AI systems.
9 years of coding experienceGithub contributions (5)
asappresearch/rationale-alignment
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
asappresearch/interactive-classification
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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