# Xiudong Li

> Software Engineer, AI and Computer Vision at GridRaster Inc.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xiudong

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ GridRaster Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present

### Associate Software Engineer @ GridRaster Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### 3D Deep Learning Engineering Intern @ GridRaster Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Developer Intern @ IRVINE CANAAN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH INC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Irvine, CA
- Developed back-end with Django and front-end with React for members management system to increase efficiency of user and event management process by 20%
- Investigated users’ needs by keeping track of use cases and interviewing from 5 different churches to increase efficiency in development phase
- Implemented user authentication with JWT, RESTful API and Django REST framework
- Developed database with PostgreSQL to save storage space for event and user information by 5%
- Applied Redux as state management tool to reduce time needed in system maintenance
- Deployed the system on cloud using Heroku to avoid the higher cost of local server

### Computer Lab Assistant @ Xiamen University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Xiamen, Fujian, China
- Built a social robotic system with C#, Unity, Python, made it understand users’ emotions from situations and to accompany them through communication
-  Recognized user’s facial expression, hand gesture and verbal information by Intel RealSense, and designed algorithms convert them to emotional values for multimodal information analysis
- Implemented non-verbal affective computing with PAD emotional model, and increased the accuracy by 18% by calculating different weights of emotional values
- Implemented fusion of PAD emotional values on decision layer using Linear Regression method and designed algorithm for mapping them in three-dimensional emotional space

### UI Designer @ Sumi
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Xiamen, Fujian, China
- Participated in the redesign of the Grid Diary app
- Being responsible for the interaction design of Financial Management Grid and Notepad Grid, used Axure to complete the demo of the interaction design.
- Made game demo by flash.
- Made demo simulating a user playing the game of link-link based on grid.

### Research Intern @ Migu Animation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Xiamen, China
- Developed a two-dimension image morphing software with C# and MATLAB, OpenNL. 
- Reconstructed picture using Laplacian pyramid.
- Implemented smoothness constraints posed on the anchors using Practical Least-Squares method.
- Solved Linear System using Gaussian elimination.

### Trainee @ Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Acquired relevant knowledge and techniques in financial engineering.
- Constructed functions to simulate and try to predict the trend of the virtual trading.


## Education
### Master's degree in computer science
UC Irvine

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering
Xiamen University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xiudongli

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Last updated: 2026-03-29