Yujia Deng

Yujia Deng is a highly skilled professional with a doctorate in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Experience includes a Software Engineer Internship at Facebook, where Yujia adapted normalization techniques to enhance model stability, trained a lifespan comment model, and improved team development tools. Yujia also served as an Instructor and Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois, providing statistical education in various courses. As a Statistical Consultant at the Illinois Statistics Office, Yujia delivered statistical consulting services to both academic and industry clients. Currently, Yujia holds the position of Senior Research Development Scientist at Meta, focusing on LLM Agent development and leading chatbot initiatives, alongside previous contributions in privacy-preserved machine learning and ads ranking performance enhancement at Meta. Yujia's early experience includes a Programmer role at Boehringer Ingelheim, where data analysis for a Phase II clinical trial was conducted.