Chenghao Li
Fundamental Research Lead at Pika
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChenghao Li is a research-driven engineer and Fundamental Research Lead specializing in 3D vision, generative AI, and robotics, with eight years of experience spanning internships to leadership roles in industry and academia. He holds a PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and combines deep expertise in local feature learning, scene representation, and animatable NeRF-based avatars with hands-on systems work—designing VAEs, scalable data pipelines, and reward models for SFT/RLHF. At MiniMax and Pika he contributed to large-scale text-to-image/video foundations and real-time video chat architectures, and has production experience optimizing models for mobile and edge deployment. Unusually, his background blends mechatronics-powered robotics projects (VSLAM, ROS platforms, underwater ROV control) with state-of-the-art generative model engineering and dataset curation at 10B+ scale. Based in Palo Alto, he is actively seeking postdoc or research scientist roles where he can bridge foundational research and deployable multimodal systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering at East China University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer VIsion, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer VIsion, Robotics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (35)
slam10
simulation9
detector9
ros9
feature-matching9
image-matching9
descriptor9
python8
mobile8
object-tracking8
robotics7
machine-learning7
gpu7
deep-learning7
xelatex7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chenghao-li-1029/Mecanum_ros
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Ros package for a mecanum wheel mobile platform with gazebo simulation, navigation, slam, object tracking, etc
Contributions:87 commits, 85 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
mobileobject-trackingrossimulation
Merical/AutoDrive
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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