Derek Xia is a Software Engineer at Instagram since April 2022, specializing in account recommendations. Prior experience includes roles as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focusing on federated learning, and a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook, where involvement was in Data Warehouse Privacy. Additional internships were completed at IMC Trading and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the latter where a web application for geographic data analysis was rebuilt using Python and Django. Derek also served as a Course Assistant for an Intro to Computer Science class at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, assisting students with programming assignments. Derek holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, obtained in 2021.
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