# Il Jae Lee

> Software Engineer, Computer Vision at Meta Reality Labs

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/il

Computer programmer with interests in machine learning and distributed systems

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Computer Vision @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Present | Burlingame, California, United States
Working on computer vision R&D for photorealistic avatar generation.

(Codec Avatars)

PyTorch, 3D computer vision

### Software Engineer, Recommendations & Ranking @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Worked on contents understanding, Newsfeed ranking & recommendation problems to improve user's newsfeed experience. Focused on Facebook Events and Groups content distribution.

* Statistical & machine learning modeling for event / signal prediction.
* Application of various prediction signals to drive user-side value.
* Short & long term forecasting, user behavior modeling, engagement prediction.

Caffe2, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, SQL, ranking, machine learning, deep learning, statistical learning

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States
Worked on Iris, a distributed queue with guaranteed in-order delivery powering Messenger and Instagram Direct. Wrote optimizations to payload retention logic for faster end-user experience in Java.

Java, Distributed Systems

### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Research assistant under Professor Jason Corso, Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab. Special focus on reinforcement/meta-learning and generalizable deep learning methods for navigation problems. Implement various algorithms in TensorFlow and PyTorch.

TensorFlow, PyTorch, deep learning, reinforcement learning, meta-learning

### Software Engineering Intern @ SalesforceIQ
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Worked on streaming (realtime) feature engineering pipeline for machine learning projects in Scala and Spark, built a tool to quickly iterate on feature extractors from email data

Scala, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Structured Streaming, Data Engineering

### Software Engineering Intern @ Fountain
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed Fountain (Previously OnboardIQ) SaaS application, using Ruby on Rails and React stack.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Solidware Co., Ltd.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea
Developed user-interface to machine learning backend, ported existing MATLAB code to C++ for faster performance.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science & Engineering in Computer Science
University of Michigan
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### High School Diploma
Cranbrook Schools
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/agiantwhale
- Website: https://jae.works

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Last updated: 2026-03-23