Chao Xu
Staff Engineer at Hillbot
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Xu is a Staff Engineer with nine years of experience at the intersection of research and production ML, currently focused on 3D and media foundation models for robotics and GenAI. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor—pursuing a PhD in Statistics at UCLA—and hands-on industry practice from roles at Hillbot and Meta where he shipped efficient media and 3D reconstruction systems. His work centers on scalable model design and generation for spatial tasks, translating cutting-edge research into deployable robotics capabilities. Having interned repeatedly at the same startup and at Meta, he demonstrates both deep domain continuity and the ability to accelerate impact across teams. Trained in computer engineering at UIUC and Zhejiang University, he pairs strong systems intuition with statistical modeling expertise. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher-engineer who moves quickly from prototype to production while keeping an eye on principled evaluation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
51reputation
3kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (43)
data-visualization8
data-analysis8
python8
deep-learning8
computer-graphics8
machine-learning8
diffusion-models8
3d-graphics8
rendering8
ui-components8
hierarchical7
data-science7
inverse7
visualization7
diffusers7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
One-2-3-45/One-2-3-45
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 42 comments in 1 year 2 months
Dustinpro/partnet_dataset
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
PartNet Dataset Official Release Repo
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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