# Chen Cai

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chencai

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/

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2023 – Present
video diffusion model & 3D reconstruction (Gaussian splatting, Nerf) in Google XR.
LLM for video summarization in Google Search.

### Machine Learning Intern @ Atomic AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Geometric deep learning (Alphafold) for RNA structure prediction

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Work on improving WebAnswers (within Google Search) for low resource languages.

### Applied Scientist @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Explore, benchmark, and improve recommendation models for Amazon Fashion.

### Research Assistant @ Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jan 2017 – Jan 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
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Master in Computer Science in Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University

### Master of Science - MS in Applied mathematics
Stony Brook University

### MASS(Mathematics Advanced Study Semester) Program
Penn State University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Economics
Peking University

### Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics
China Agricultural University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chen-cai-06141166
- Portfolio: https://chen-cai-osu.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-29