Haonan Chen
Research Engineer II at Adobe
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolHaonan Chen is a Research Engineer II based in Mountain View with a decade of experience at the intersection of audio signal processing, music understanding, and generative models. He built multimodal large-model capabilities at TikTok—spanning audio-based chatbots, music generation/editing, tokenizers, and both autoregressive and diffusion generative architectures—before joining Adobe to continue research-driven engineering. His background blends rigorous academic training (Tsinghua BS, UNC Chapel Hill MS) with hands-on systems work in distributed training, inference optimization, and AI agents for recommendation and content editing. Comfortable across research and production, he repeatedly bridges prototype model development with scalable training pipelines. An idiosyncratic detail: he signs code and profiles as “chaonan,” a playful contraction of his name that shows up across his GitHub presence.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBachelor's Automation, Bachelor's Automation at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (153)
librosa10
sublime-text10
dtw10
audio10
music10
sublime10
latex9
languagetool9
latexmk9
magenta9
beamer9
pitch9
music-generation9
deep-q-network9
tex9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chaonan99/chaonan99.github.io
Jul 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
chaonan99/chaonan99_note
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:255 commits, 235 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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