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Quannan Li

@quannanli

GenAI engineer at Google building production analytics agents with Gemini, including agentic RAG and RLxF-post-trained NL2SQL.

United States
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At Google, I build production data-analytics agents on Gemini and ADK that turn open-ended questions into cited, chart-supported insights. I designed and shipped an agentic RAG pipeline for schema and business-context retrieval, reducing schema-linking errors compared with a single-shot RAG baseline.

I own the RLxF workstream for NL2SQL, where I built preference-pair pipelines, trained reward models, and ran preference-optimization fine-tuning that improved execution accuracy over the SFT baseline. I also extended post-training to multi-step agent behavior and defined the evaluation methodology used to gate launches.

At Twitter, I worked across personalization, retention, and recommended push notifications. The retention initiative I helped build drove 15M+ incremental monetizable DAU, and recommended push notifications grew to more than 10% of Twitter’s total monetizable DAU.

I also contributed to research published at venues including CVPR, ICML, and VLDB; my publications have received 2,900+ citations. I bring together hands-on model and agent development with experience shaping technical direction across large-scale ML systems.

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University of California, Los Angeles logoUA

University of California, Los Angeles

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science

2009 - 2013

Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on computer vision and machine learning. Completed the doctoral program in June 2013.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology logoHT

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Master of Science, Communication & Information System

2003 - 2009

Earned a Master of Science in Communication & Information System and a Bachelor of Science in Communication Engineering.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology logoHT

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science, Communication Engineering

2003 - 2009

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication Engineering.

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