Yijie Bei

Yijie Bei is a Software Engineer at Fireworks AI, specializing in Generative AI since October 2023. Prior to this role, Yijie Bei served as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook from July 2020 to October 2023, leading significant advancements in the largest news feed ranking model and contributing to the development of the Minimal Viable AI project for optimizing recommendation systems. Yijie Bei's experience includes machine learning engineering roles at Facebook, where core work involved ranking and retrieval modeling, and building infrastructure for advanced modeling capabilities across various product surfaces. Yijie Bei has also interned at several prominent companies, including Facebook AI and JD.COM, and has a solid educational foundation from Duke University, where work included impactful research in deep learning and software development.