Jia Shiau
Software Engineering Manager at Google
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolJia Shiau is a software engineering manager with 9 years of experience leading machine learning and computer vision teams, currently driving human-understanding ML for AndroidXR at Google after building and scaling ML & MLOps efforts at HTC VIVE. She specializes in turning research-grade vision models—hand, face, gesture, and full-body understanding—into robust, production-ready systems optimized for diverse XR hardware and real-world conditions. Her work spans the full ML lifecycle, including platform design, private-cloud orchestration, reproducible pipelines, and deployment across constrained devices using TensorFlow and PyTorch. Known for cultivating collaborative, cross-functional teams, she emphasizes transparent processes, mentorship, and breaking down silos to accelerate innovation and technical growth. She also writes advanced ML and computer vision content in Traditional Chinese to fill a regional knowledge gap, and has a background in theoretical algorithms with published research and patents.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Central University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (56)
hand-tracking10
python10
human-computer-interaction10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
pose-estimation10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
logger9
convolutional-neural-networks9
model-compression9
python-logging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Janus-Shiau/lookahead_tensorflow
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Lookahead optimizer ("Lookahead Optimizer: k steps forward, 1 step back") for tensorflow
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
tensorflowoptimizeradam-optimizersgd-optimizerdeep-learning
Janus-Shiau/awd-lstm-tensorflow
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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