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Name Xuan Kan
Label Research Scientist
Email kanxuan1996@gmail.com
Url https://kanxuan.live
Summary Research Scientist at Meta Monetization GenAI working on reinforcement learning, language model evaluation and reward modeling, and multimodal LLMs.

Work

  • 2024.05 - Present

    Menlo Park, CA, USA

    Research Scientist
    Monetization GenAI, Meta
    Ads Creative Agent
    • Designed and implemented an end-to-end agentic RL framework for ads image generation, combining policy optimization with multimodal reward signals and extending the framework toward video ads generation agents.
    • Led the design of a multimodal automated evaluation system from prompt design through SFT and RL to scalably assess LLM/VLM-generated ad creatives, with findings published in peer-reviewed venues.
    • Built a user preference prediction model for automatic creative variant selection, achieving a 40%+ save-rate lift in A/B tests.
  • 2023.06 - 2023.09

    Seattle, WA, USA

    PhD Software Engineer Intern
    Ads Core ML, Meta
    Designed and built new ads models for the Signal Loss problem.
  • 2022.10 - 2023.06

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    Student Researcher
    Federated Assistant Team, Google
    Employed federated learning and parameter-efficient transfer learning to reduce ASR data requirements and communication costs between servers and clients.
  • 2022.05 - 2022.08

    Seattle, WA, USA

    PhD Software Engineer Intern
    Ads Core ML, Meta
    Built Multi-Task Multi-Label Hypergraph Neural Network models for the Signal Loss problem.
  • 2019.02 - 2019.07

    Beijing, China

    Research Intern
    Smart City Group, SenseTime Research
    Accelerated mobile neural network inference for stereo matching with neural architecture search.

Education

  • 2019.08 - 2024.05

    GA, US

    PhD
    Emory University
    Computer Science
  • 2014.09 - 2018.07

    Shanghai, China

    Bachelor
    Tongji University
    Software Engineering