Chih-chen Kao
Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolChih-Chen Kao is a PhD-trained software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance graphics, GPGPU and autonomous driving systems across research labs and industry teams in Europe and the U.S. He has designed LiDAR simulators, visibility and occupancy-grid systems for safety-critical autonomy, and implemented neural rendering, smart upscaling and HIP-based ray tracing libraries for real-time graphics at AMD. Comfortable moving between low-level kernel/firmware work and advanced rendering research, he’s delivered GPU-optimized runtimes, CUDA/OptiX solutions and embedded sensor firmware that improved performance and power efficiency by orders of magnitude. A longtime freelancer turned staff engineer, he combines academic publications and lab leadership with practical production deployments, and famously treats programming as a lifelong hobby—“I live to code.” Based in Munich, he brings a rare blend of computer-graphics depth and autonomy-focused sensor simulation expertise.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityComputer System, Computer System at ETH Zurich
English, Chinese, German
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Github Skills (94)
package-management10
windows10
cmake10
protoc10
visual-studio10
cpp10
unix10
protocol-buffers10
linux10
embree10
opengl10
protobuf10
cpp-library10
vulkan10
conan10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KaoCC/HDR
Mar 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 65 commits, 31 pushes in 4 years 10 months
amdadvtech/Orochi
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:61 reviews, 48 commits, 37 PRs in 6 months
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