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Qingli Li

Bellevue,WA

Summary

Applied scientist with 6+ years’ experience of applying machine learning techniques (Deep Neural Networks, Decision Trees and Ensembles, GenAI etc.) solving time series forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection problems. Driving project that revolutionizes forecasting models that relied on by the organization of 500+ people by replacing existing linear regression models with deep learning models (DeepAR+, CNN-QR, etc.). In-depth knowledge of big data analytics with 10+ years’ experience of big data processing on variety of data platforms. Two times winner of MLU (Machine Learning University) competitions, 1st place in a classification problem applying ensemble algorithms (30+ people competed), 3rd place in Computer Vision problem applying CNN algorithms (70+ people competed).

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Application Specialist

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
05.2017 - Current

As a Senior Applied Scientist at AWS Networking's Network Capacity organization, I lead a team focused on advanced forecasting solutions for data center planning. In past two years our team rebuild the entire forecasting services by replacing the rule-based approach with state-of-art ML algorithms including time series forecasting algorithm, quantile regression approach for cold-start scenarios as well as variety of anomaly detection techniques. Since Nov 2024 I started a project that solves network rack/device placement optimization problem. A new project coming to me in 2025 to predict network link failure using Graph Neural Network.

Sr. Data Engineer

Xome
08.2015 - 05.2017

Drove innovation on big data analytics platform, providing insights for critical decision-making throughout the company by processing and analyzing tera-bytes data each day.

Sr. Data Engineer

zulily
08.2012 - 07.2015

Lead and focus on web analytics on big data platform, ie, Google Cloud, Hadoop/Hive with extended technology such as Tableau, MS SQL server, MySQL etc

Sr. Data Warehouse Engineer

The Walt Disney Company
12.2008 - 07.2012

Business Intelligence Consultant

Sierra Systems
01.2006 - 12.2008

Data Warehouse Engineer

Telus Communications
05.2005 - 12.2005

Data warehouse Engineer

D3 Management Corporation
08.2004 - 04.2005

System Analyst

StarHub Pte Ltd (Singapore)
09.2000 - 03.2004

Education

Machine Learning -

Machine Learning University
01.2020

Computer Science & Engineering -

Harbin Institute of Technology
01-1997

Skills

  • Machine Learning & Deep Learning
  • Forecasting
  • Generative AI
  • Big Data

Timeline

Sr Application Specialist

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
05.2017 - Current

Sr. Data Engineer

Xome
08.2015 - 05.2017

Sr. Data Engineer

zulily
08.2012 - 07.2015

Sr. Data Warehouse Engineer

The Walt Disney Company
12.2008 - 07.2012

Business Intelligence Consultant

Sierra Systems
01.2006 - 12.2008

Data Warehouse Engineer

Telus Communications
05.2005 - 12.2005

Data warehouse Engineer

D3 Management Corporation
08.2004 - 04.2005

System Analyst

StarHub Pte Ltd (Singapore)
09.2000 - 03.2004

Machine Learning -

Machine Learning University

Computer Science & Engineering -

Harbin Institute of Technology
Qingli Li