Yichen Zheng is a Software Development Engineer currently employed at Meta since June 2024. Prior to this role, Yichen worked at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer 2 from March 2021 to June 2024 and was previously a Software Development Engineer at Amazon from June 2019 to March 2021. Yichen's experience also includes a position as a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University, where algorithm development for computer vision and artificial intelligence applications were key responsibilities. An internship as a Machine Learning Research Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute involved proposing an innovative caption augmentation idea. Yichen holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a Graduate preparation program in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Riverside, and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.