# Ruxiao Bao

> Waymo, UIUC

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ruxiao

Ruxiao Bao is currently a machine learning engineer.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2026 – Present
Sim to real.

### Senior MLE, Meta Superintelligence Labs @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Menlo Park, CA
Llama post-training, RLHF

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
GenAI, RAG, creative advertisement, recommendation

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer II @ Cruise
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | United States
L4 self driving, perception, prediction, computer vision

### Senior Software Engineer @ DiDi
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
Perception, Deep/Machine Learning, L4 autonomous driving.

### Software Engineer II @ DiDi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
Perception

### Software Engineer @ DiDi
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
AR/VR

### R&D Engineer @ CCC Information Services
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area
Image processing, computer vision

### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1. Host the research topic on “Construction Equipment Activity Recognition and Performance Analysis using Computer Vision Technique”, familiar with pose recognition techniques;
2.  Participate in the research on “Tracking construction equipment and personnel using visual sensing technology”, familiar with video-based object detection and localization technique;
3. Participate in the research on “Visual Monitoring of Construction Equipment Carbon-footprint”, using equipment activity recognition to analyze its environmental impact; 
4. Host the research topic on “Detecting Geometrical Deviation between BIM and Registered Photos”, familiar with 3D point cloud, camera calibration and vision-based deviation analysis; 
5. Taken courses: Computer Vision, Computer Photography, Visual Sensing for Civil Infrastructure, Virtual Reality, familiar with computer vision algorithm and programming.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
Chongqing University

### Summer session in Civil Engineering
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ruxiaobao

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ruxiao/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11