YIKAI WANG

Software Engineer Machine Learning

Yikai Wang is a highly skilled professional with extensive experience in machine learning and data science. Yikai completed a PhD internship at Facebook in 2019, focusing on country-level violation detection and community detection algorithms. As a Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning at Meta since May 2025, Yikai works on projects related to Reality Lab, wearables, Health AI, and GenAI. Previously, Yikai served as a Quantitative Analyst at Google, developing forecasting tools that improved accuracy by over 8% for data center resource planning. Yikai was also a Machine Learning Scientist and team lead at Apple from April 2020 to May 2025, having spearheaded the development of various customer-facing health features. Yikai holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from South China University of Technology, as well as multiple advanced degrees in Biostatistics and Public Health from Emory University, achieving high academic honors throughout.

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Cupertino, United States

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