Hao Xiong is a Senior Software Engineer and Ph.D. machine learning practitioner based in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building large-scale vision and language systems for Google products. He specializes in LLM/VLM architectures and large model distillation, currently shipping DeepMind distillation tech into Google (including Gemini auto-distillation agents). His background spans research and production—from leading vision model projects for Photos, Lens, and Ads to deploying transformer-based systems for YouTube Shorts and end-to-end TFX production pipelines. Hao combines deep research experience from his Ph.D. and UT Dallas research leadership with practical systems engineering, including on-prem Kubernetes and GPU virtualization for scalable labs. A vuejs fan outside of work, he blends front-end enthusiasm with heavyweight ML infrastructure expertise.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology
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Hao Xiong - Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind