Bowei Chen is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Seattle with five years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and production at institutions like Tesla, University of Washington, Adobe, and ByteDance. He specializes in image and video generation, inverse rendering, and diffusion-based portrait editing, with several publications and project pages (Inverse Painting, Total Selfie, Fit Check Generation) that reflect a strong research-to-demo pipeline. Having progressed from computational photography and recommender systems internships to PhD research under leaders like Steve Seitz and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, he combines deep theoretical insight with practical model engineering for real-world products such as Optimus & Autopilot. Bowei’s background spans full-stack engineering instincts and robotics-informed vision research from CMU, making him adept at shipping complex visual ML systems end-to-end. A not-obvious strength is his consistent pattern of turning academic prototypes into tangible demos and production collaborations across industry research labs.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Washington
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Northeastern University (CN)
Master in Robotics Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master in Robotics Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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