Meta
Vena Jia Li is an accomplished engineering manager currently at Meta, where Vena has been since May 2022. Prior to this role, Vena held various leadership positions at Salesforce from January 2018 to May 2022, including Director of Applied Research and Senior Manager of Research Engineering, focusing on recommendation systems, NLP, and AutoML. Vena's experience spans multiple internships at prominent companies such as Pinterest, Google, and LinkedIn, working on projects involving personalized recommendations and enhancing user experiences through advanced machine learning techniques. Vena holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Illinois Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Dalian University of Technology.