Chao Gao
Staff Researcher at Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolChao Gao is a Staff Researcher with a decade of experience building application-driven solutions at the intersection of heuristic search, reinforcement learning, and combinatorial optimization. Based in Edmonton, he has advanced tensor program optimization for heterogeneous hardware (TVM/Halide) at Huawei, translating research ideas into production-grade systems. His background spans academic work in discrete optimization and multi-agent RL (including Pommerman) through internships and research positions, culminating in a PhD-level focus on practical algorithms for hard problems. Known for blending search-based methods with deep RL, he routinely targets real-world performance bottlenecks rather than purely theoretical gains. An economist of compute, he combines low-level systems intuition with algorithmic creativity to squeeze efficiency from complex ML workloads.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of AlbertaMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, 1, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, 1 at University of Science and Technology of ChinaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, 4, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, 4 at Nanchang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
python10
machine-learning10
playing10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
hex9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
cmake7
agent4
stable-baselines4
deep-reinforcement-learning3
reinforcement-learning3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cgao3/neurobenzene
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cgao3/benzene-vanilla-cmake
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
CMake managed Benzene vanilla for playing and solving the game of Hex, easier to install!
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 11 months
hexcmakesolvinggame-ofplaying
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