Chen Cai is a software engineer at Google AR semantic perception team. He graduated from UC San Diego in 2023 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science focusing on geometric deep learning. Learn more about his research at https://chen-cai-osu.github.io/

Experience

2023 — NowGoogleSoftware Engineer

2023 — Now

video diffusion model & 3D reconstruction (Gaussian splatting, Nerf) in Google XR.

LLM for video summarization in Google Search.

2023 — 2023Atomic AIMachine Learning Intern

2023 — 2023

Geometric deep learning (Alphafold) for RNA structure prediction

2022 — 2022GoogleSoftware Engineer Intern

2022 — 2022

Work on improving WebAnswers (within Google Search) for low resource languages.

2021 — 2021AmazonApplied Scientist

2021 — 2021

Explore, benchmark, and improve recommendation models for Amazon Fashion.

2017 — 2017Brookhaven National LaboratoryResearch Assistant

2017 — 2017

Use OpenACC directives to obtain high performance for computational physics application

Refactor the legacy C++ code for better parallelization

Experiment with real-world applications such as Lattice QCD

Education

UC San Diego

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

The Ohio State University

Master in Computer Science

Stony Brook University

Master of Science - MS

Penn State University

MASS(Mathematics Advanced Study Semester) Program

Peking University

Bachelor’s Degree

China Agricultural University