Jing Gu
PhD Candidate
Summary
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SeniorJing Gu is a research-driven software engineer and recent PhD student at UCSC with nine years of experience building cutting-edge AI systems across industry and academia. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI, Jing has held research roles at Salesforce, NVIDIA, Adobe, and Google AI focused on MLLMs, agents (web, computer-use, AI browser), embodied AI, video generation, and conversational assistants. As a team lead for SlugJarvis in an Alexa SimBot competition and former research lead at SearchableAI, Jing blends hands-on model development with leadership in multi-institution projects. Based in Mountain View, they bring a rare combination of foundational research training and product-minded execution that accelerates turning experimental models into deployable agents.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (71)
transformers10
python10
diffusion-models10
deep-learning10
gemma10
glm10
text-to-image10
pre-trained-model10
multimodal10
audio10
transformer10
nlp10
natural-language-understanding10
video-editing10
google10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UCSB-AI/awesome-vision-language-navigation
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
A curated list for vision-and-language navigation. ACL 2022 paper "Vision-and-Language Navigation: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Future Directions"
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
vision-and-languagevision-and-language-navigationnavigationembodied-agent
UCSB-AI/photoswap
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Official implementation of the NeurIPS 2023 paper "Photoswap: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images"
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 14 comments in 1 year 8 months
diffusion-modelsgenerative-aiimage-editingpersonalizationphotoswap
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