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Xinyu Li

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Principal Applied Scientist @ AGI at Amazon
📍 Greater Seattle Area, United States

Xinyu is a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI, where he leads the development of the "Nova" family of large multimodal models. His expertise spans video and multimodal understanding, with his work powering services in media, entertainment, and security. He earned his PhD from Rutgers University.

He spearheads research into next-generation AI architectures for unified understanding and generation, with numerous publications in top-tier venues like CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICCV.

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Experience
1 Years
Current Role
Principal Applied Scientist @ AGI
Job Level
Junior
Location
Greater Seattle Area, United States
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Large Multimodal Models
Leads the development of Amazon's "Nova" family of large multimodal models, focusing on encoders, training pipelines, and deployment for enterprise customers.
Video Understanding
A core area of his research since his PhD, he previously led video understanding at AWS AI for services like Rekognition Video and Prime Video.
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Principal Applied Scientist @ AGI
Amazon
Staff Research Scientist @ AML
ByteDance
Senior Applied Scientist @ AWS AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
5-2017 - 8-2017
Machine Learning Scientist Intern
Amazon
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Education
2013 - 2018
Video Understanding; Multimodal Understanding; Representation Learning
Rutgers University
2009 - 2013
Bachelor’s Degree
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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