Chao Wang
Research Engineer at Meta
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Wang is a research engineer based in San Jose with a decade of experience at the intersection of computer vision, 3D graphics, and computational neuroscience-driven AI. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has built production-grade 3D reconstruction and mesh-processing systems at Matterport and ByteDance before joining Meta. His work spans indoor and outdoor scanning, texture mapping, mesh denoising and decimation, and mobile capture—skills grounded in both academic research and hands-on engineering. Comfortable moving ideas from research to shipping products, he also has a knack for applying neuroscience-inspired approaches to AI problems, as reflected in his projects and GitHub bio.
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 The University of Texas at DallasSecond Bachlor Economics, Second Bachlor Economics at Peking UniversityMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (116)
parallel10
computational-neuroscience10
sphinx-doc10
python10
sympy10
svm10
parallel-computing10
computer-graphics10
gpu10
operator10
portable10
fourier-transform10
neurons10
pde10
differentiable-programming10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chaobrain/brainunit
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Physical units and unit-aware mathematical system for general-purpose brain dynamics modeling.
Contributions:1 release, 24 reviews, 136 PRs in 9 months
ai4sciencebrain-dynamics-modelingbrain-modelingphysical-quantitiesphysical-units
chaobrain/brainstate
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
A State-based Transformation System for Program Compilation and Augmentation.
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 102 PRs in 9 months
brain-dynamics-modelingcompilationjax
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