Yicheng Fei

Yicheng Fei is a highly accomplished researcher with a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Rice University, where work included projects on visual neural computations, recurrent factor graph neural networks, and cortical neural dynamics. Experience as a Graduate Student Researcher at Rice University spanned from January 2018 to January 2024, followed by a brief tenure as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute in early 2024. Yicheng served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant focused on Neural Computation at Rice University in early 2022. Transitioning to industry, Yicheng worked as a Principal Data Scientist at Capital One, enhancing customer journey understanding using advanced transformer models. Currently, Yicheng holds the position of Research Scientist at Meta, specializing in Ads Ranking. Prior academic training includes a Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from 中国科学技术大学.