cv

Please find my up-to-date (2025/06) CV by clicking the PDF icon here -------------------------------------------------------^

Basics

Name Feng Gao
Label AI Researcher
Email fenggo [at] amazon [dot] com

Work

  • 2022.07 - present

    USA

    Applied Scientist
    Amazon
    • Build Rufus (Amazon's LLM-powered shopping assistant).
    • Launched multimodal-Rufus (Rufus-MM) for image/video understanding experience.
    • Rufus-MM full-stack development, training 7B-100B+ M-LLMs.
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06

    USA

    Graduate Student Researcher
    UCLA
    • Research Advisor: Song-Chun Zhu
    • Visual Reasoning
    • Robot Learning and Planning

Education

  • 2017.09 - 2022.06

    USA

    Ph.D.
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
    • Committee: M. Handcock, Y.N. Wu, H. Lu, C. Jiang
    • Advisor: Dr. Song-Chun Zhu (2017-2021)
    • Thesis: Multi-Modal Robotic Learning, Reasoning and Planning
  • 2015.08 - 2017.05

    USA

    M.S.
    University of Southern California (USC)
  • 2011.08 - 2015.06

    China

    B.Eng.
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)

Skills

Programming Langage
Python
C++
MATLAB
LATEX
Deep Learning Development
PyTorch
TensorFlow
MATLAB
Hugging Face
LLM Development
Nemo Megatron
Deepspeed

Languages

Chinese
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Cantonese
Native speaker

Interests

Sports
Badminton
Gym
Sailing
Photography
Airplanes, Aviation
Taking photos of my family, ^_^