cv
Please find my up-to-date (2024/10) CV here.
General Information
| Name | Feng Gao |
| Languages | English, Chinese, Cantonese |
Education
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2022 Ph.D. in Statistics
University of California, Los Angeles -
2017 M.S. in Computer Science
University of Southern California -
2015 B.Eng. in Software Engineering
Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Experience
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2022 - now Applied Scientist
Amazon, Palo Alto/Sunnyvale, CA - Core member of Rufus-MM. Full stack M-LLM including pre-training, IFT, alignment and evaluation.
- Embodied AI and text to image generation (prior to Rufus in Alexa).
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2020 - 2022 Teaching Assistant/Associate
University of California, Los Angeles, CA - Stats 20, Stats100B, Stats102C, Stat425.
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2017 - 2021 Graduate Student Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Academic Service
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2019 - 2024 - CVPR reviewer
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2020 - 2023 - NeurIPS reviewer
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2021 - NeurIPS dataset track reviewer
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2022 - ICLR reviewer
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2020 - 2021 - AAAI reviewer
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2020 - ECCV reviewer
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2019 - ICCV reviewer
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2018 - ICRA reviewer
Honors and Awards
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2020 - 2022 - UCLA Doctoral Fellowship
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2019 - CVPR outstanding reviewer
Academic Interests
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Reasoning.
- Multi-modal reasoning.
- Visual abstract reasoning.
- Physical world modeling.
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Embodied AI.
- Robot learning and planning.
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Generative AI.
- Representation learning in text-to-image generation.
- Physics-based text-to-animation generation.