Alan Li

Alex Li is a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook) with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and software engineering. Here are some key details about his background and career:

Education

Alex Li holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a research assistant in the Machine Learning Department from August 2020 to present.2 Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley between 2016 and 2020.2

Professional Experience

Meta

Alex currently works as a Research Scientist Intern at Meta AI Research, a position he has held from June 2023 to January 2024.2 In this role, he focuses on representation learning and Transformers, collaborating with researchers like Xinlei Chen.1

Other Research Positions

• Visiting Researcher at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (June - August 2022)2
• Research Assistant at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (January 2018 - May 2020)2

Research Focus

Alex's research interests include:

• Learning from Internet-scale data
• Generative models
• Deep learning generalization
• Representation learning
• Computer vision algorithms

Publications

Alex has authored several papers in top AI conferences, including:

• "Your Diffusion Model is Secretly a Zero-Shot Classifier" (ICCV 2023)1
• "Internet Explorer: Targeted Representation Learning on the Open Web" (ICML 2023)1
• "Understanding Collapse in Non-Contrastive Siamese Representation Learning" (ECCV 2022)1

Awards and Honors

Throughout his academic career, Alex has received numerous awards, including:

• Two Sigma PhD Fellowship Runner-Up (2023)1
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2020)12
• Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship (2019)12

Skills

Alex is proficient in various programming languages and frameworks, with a particular focus on machine learning tools like PyTorch.1