Charles Gao
Incoming Software Engineering Intern at Gleame
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Gao is an incoming Software Engineering Intern at Salesforce and a co-founder/CTO building AI-driven virtual try-on technology for beauty at Gleame, bringing eight years of hands-on experience across research, product incubators, and early-stage growth roles. He blends cognitive science foundations from USC with practical ML research—having built transformer and BioBERT-based models for clinical trial prediction at NYU Langone and investigated bias in word embeddings at the University of Cambridge. Comfortable moving between research and product, he mentors at LavaLab and has a track record of shipping prototypes in fast-paced incubators. Based in the NYC metro area, Charles pairs entrepreneurial grit with a curiosity for applied AI in health and consumer-facing experiences, often surfacing non-obvious dataset biases into actionable model improvements.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Cognitive Science, Bachelor's degree, Cognitive Science at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Phillips Exeter AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at USC Viterbi School of EngineeringProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
charlesgao12/blockchain-atm
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
charlesgao12/scratch
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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