Chang Gao 高畅

I am a Research Engineer at the Apple Foundation Model (AFM) team. I design, develop and deploy multimodal large language models (MLLM), focusing on pre-training, mid-training, post-training, LLM infrastructure, and evaluation.

From 2020 to 2024, I was a Tech Lead and Perception Engineer at Waymo, shipping multimodal spatial-temporal algorithms and vision language models (VLMs) to both the autonomous vehicles and the remote cloud services.

I obtained B.Eng in Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong and M.S. in Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University, with research focuses on LLMs, AI/ML, Computer Vision, and Robotics. I review papers at top AI conference like AAAI, WACV, BMVC. I also coaches LeetCode for free, with around 10k GitHub stars.

I was once ranked as #10 (#40 at the end of season) Demon Hunter DPS in the World of Warcraft US server, top 0.1%.

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