Xiaoyu Bai

Staff Research Scientist at Meta

Mountain View, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Meta (On-site)
    • Staff Research Scientist
      Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

      - Tech lead Facebook Reels entrypoint optimization and sharing ecosystem growth. - Tech lead IG Reels content exploration and measurement.

    • Senior Research Scientist
      Feb 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      - Shipped the very first realtime ranking backend for Facebook app notifications and improve the user satisfaction by 20%. - Shipped the mvp e2e content ranking stack for Facebook app notification widget that grew widget adoption by 20%. - Built all the e2e ranking solutions for small Facebook business and creators across newsfeed and notification to grow their paid subscriptions by 30%.

  • Research Scientist at Facebook
    Oct 2018 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    - Built e2e entrypoint ranking solutions for video products like Live and Watch Party across newsfeed and notifications.

  • Research assistant at Rice University
    Oct 2012 - Sep 2018 · 6 yrs

    My phd research focuses on simulating large-scale complex biological systems like cytoskeleton and developing novel sampling algorithm to properly sampled rare chemical events in those systems. I also work on developing analytical theories for jamming, glass transition and heterogeneity in active glasses.