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Wen Hong Lam

Experience

Meta

New York, NY · Apr 2022 – Present

Software Engineer · Wearables

  • On-the-go spatial behaviors for Project Orion.
  • Built an AR World Understanding SDK on top of OpenXR used by all AR applications.
  • Worked on battery life optimizations in the MCU, extending battery life by over 2 hours across the team.
  • Designed and built dynamic runtime asset system for deep-learning expression tracking models in Spark AR Studio, replacing static dependencies and cutting model iteration time from hours to minutes.
  • Built SDKs on unified wearables platform, of which some were exposed through the Meta Wearables Device Access Toolkit.

Facebook

Bay Area, CA (Remote) · Jun 2021 – Sep 2021

Software Engineer Intern — Assistant Language Team (FRL)

  • Moved dialog-system AI inference on-device in C++ (previously server-side), eliminating the network round-trip for lower latency and improved privacy.

PayPal

Jul 2020 – Nov 2020

Software Engineer Intern

  • Worked on internal tooling for developer productivity and test coverage for the payments codebase.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Graduated March 2022

B.S. Computer Science

Upsilon Pi Epsilon · Dean's Honors List

Publications