Cheng Xue is a Senior AI Engineer based in Canberra with nine years of experience applying machine learning to robotics, computer vision, and real-world products while completing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at ANU. He has led teams building adaptive perception pipelines and LLM fine-tuning projects, notably improving robot leaf-detection to correct errors with under 10 samples and integrating YOLO and symbolic reasoning on TurtleBot4 and a commercial mower. Cheng blends academic rigor with product focus—securing early investment interest and delivering industry pitches—while mentoring students and interns across research and elite training programs. His background in mathematics, actuarial science and data engineering informs a pragmatic approach to model design, evaluation and deployment in noisy, changing environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Master's degree Accounting, Master's degree Accounting at Curtin University
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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