Jiacheng Cheng
Postdoctoral Associate
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJiacheng Cheng is a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale with eight years of experience in deep learning and computer vision, specializing in visual novelty detection, uncertainty calibration, probabilistic neural networks, and learning under label noise. He completed a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego after formative research visits to the University of Sydney and an industry research internship at Adobe. Jiacheng balances rigorous theory with practical engineering—his open-source contributions include backend and QA improvements to the widely used pip project, enhancing cross-platform path handling and test infrastructure. Based in New Haven, he combines academic publication experience with hands-on software maintenance, making him effective at translating research ideas into robust, usable code.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering and Information Science (EEIS), Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering and Information Science (EEIS) at University of Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (9)
packaging10
pip10
pytest10
python10
testing9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
windows7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/pip
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
The Python package installer
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jiacheng contributed to improving the project's usability and maintainability by clarifying the usage of command-line arguments related to binary packages, as well as refining the testing infrastructure. They registered custom marks within the test framework to enhance test organization and avoid warnings. Additionally, the user updated the code base to handle path normalization on Windows.
pythonpackage-installerpippackaginginstaller
cjc7373/dpb
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
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