Chengzhi Mao
Assistant Professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChengzhi Mao is an assistant professor and research scientist with nine years of experience specializing in vision-language foundation models, transfer learning, and multimodal knowledge distillation. After a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia and research stints at MIT CSAIL, he developed production-oriented algorithms at Google, contributing to post-training techniques and Gemini multimodal distillation efforts. His background includes internships at Microsoft Research and Waymo, giving him a blend of theoretical depth and applied systems experience in perception and autonomous driving. Now leading an academic lab at Rutgers, he bridges cutting-edge research with teachable insights for the next generation of AI researchers. Notably, his trajectory pairs elite academic training from Tsinghua and Columbia with hands-on industry projects that push model transfer and efficiency in large-scale multimodal systems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Reseach Assistant CSAIL, Reseach Assistant CSAIL at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD CS, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD CS at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (23)
robustness10
ranking10
science10
computer-science10
react10
representation-learning9
classification9
metric-learning9
transfer-learning8
unsupervised-learning8
self-supervised-learning8
twitter-search6
tensorflow6
twitter6
deep-learning5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cvlab-columbia/GenInt
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes in 11 months
ChengzhiCU/UWB_ML
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:44 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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