Can Li

Led multiple Recommendation System projects, supporting flagship products (IG Reels, FB Feed Recs) - Designed and developed a critical component in FB Feed Recommendation, driving significant topline gains (+0.0X% App Sessions, +0.0X% Feed Views, capacity savings) and enabling 30+ feature launches over 1.5 years. - Designed and built integrity measurement components for IG Reels, delivering key metrics on violating content prevalence and guardrails to support safe model launches Led multiple AI/ML Infra projects to support ranking models powering RecSys and Ads - Designed and developed a service to generate/validate training data for Ads ranking foundation models, leading to +%0.X Global Ads Score and $1.XM capacity savings. - Designed and developed a heuristic-based approach to evaluate human labeler performance and detect bad labels in training data, resulting in improved R@P70 of multiple topical models. - Designed and automated e2e labeling workflows to evaluate topical model performance and assess human labeler quality at scale

- Developing and maintaining on our in-house underwriting platform - Developed several features of our in-house policy administration platform

Amazon Instant Video - Content Risk Inspection System (CRIS)

EMBEDDED SYSTEM | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ♦ Maintained& Developed real-time control software with C/C++, Linux, Python ♦ Developed a hardware simulation software based on B&R PLC with C/C++ through analyzing hardware specification, modeling communication protocol and simplifying core functionality ♦ Bug-fixing and performance-improvement on legacy code with Agile project management ♦ Coordinated & performed software test with different domain experts in the field ♦ Technical documents reiview, writing and presentation

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING | TEACHING & DEVELOPMENT ♦ Responsible for providing homework assignment support and examination preparations while leveraging programming knowledge to support education regarding Introduction to Computing (100+ students) and System Programming (60+ students) ♦ Assist with implementation of computer programming lesson plans that met varied student needs, evaluated and assessed students’ development, and implemented study methodologies to enhance students’ progress

PROJECT MANAGEMENT | RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ♦ Demonstrated proficiency and efficiently utilized skills in C++, Qt, and Linux, to successfully accomplish Visualization Software Project for Vigenére Cipher ♦ Implemented demo mode to display the encryption and decryption process in (3) tools, and implmeneted the practice mode to allow users to practice doing the encryption and decryption ♦ Implemented Kasiski test & IoC method to analyze the keyword length, and implemented X2 method to recover the keyword ♦ Expressed a full understand of project requirements in alignment with targeted software development

PROJECT MANAGEMENT | RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ♦ Leveraged skills in C++, CUDA, OpenGL, and Linux technologies to visualize unsteady flow fields with pathline and accomplish 4 critical steps (entropy computation, critical region detection, skeleton construction, and path-line tracing) regarding the Visualization of Unsteady Flow Field project ♦ Implemented the entropy computation with CUDA to extract critical regions based on Out-of-Core technique ♦ Implemented Volume Thinning Algorithm to generate skeletons of the critical regions ♦ Designed and implemented an algorithm to construct spatial-temporal regions ♦ Implemented the pathline-tracing algorithm by placing seeds on the skeletons of the flow field

PROJECT MANAGEMENT | RESEARCH & ANALYSIS ♦ Demonstrated proficiency with C++, CUDA, and OpenGL for Volume Rendering of Electromagnetic Field project ♦ Visualized electromagnetic information through the volume-rendering method, and devised differed algorithms ♦ Designed and implemented parallel algorithm to calculate the electromagnetic value of each discrete point in the 3D world with CUDA ♦ Implemented the ray-casting parallel algorithm with CUDA to visualize data and render the electromagnetic field ♦ Implemented Empty-Space Skipping Algorithm to improve the efficiency of rendering based on Octree ♦ Designed and implemented the Matrix Generation Algorithm to merge the ray-casting result into the 3D scene

Selected Courses: Advanced Algorithm, Data Visualization, Theory of Computation, Advanced Rendering & Modeling, Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Software Process & Management, Computer Security

Selected Classes: Advanced Computer System Structure, Algorithm Analysis & Design, Combinatorial Theory, Computer Graphics, Distributed Systems

Selected Courses: Calculus I&II, Linear Algebra, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Data Structure, C Programming, Numerical Computing Methods, Principle of Microcomputer System and Interface, Matlab Experiment