Kaidi Cao
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaidi Cao is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic with a decade of experience building and aligning large-scale AI systems, currently focused on improving Claude’s alignment and tool-use. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has deep research roots including internships at Microsoft and a student researcher stint at Google. As co-founder and research scientist of Voyage AI, he developed state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models for retrieval and led the startup through acquisition. His work spans from foundational research to product-ready ML engineering, with a particular strength in post-training agent behavior. Based in Palo Alto, he combines academic rigor with startup execution and a penchant for turning research prototypes into production capabilities. An understated throughline in his career is translating complex alignment research into practical tooling that improves real-world model safety and utility.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Hangzhou Foreign Languages SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
margin10
loss10
pytorch9
datasets9
graph-convolutional-networks8
graph-neural-network8
deep-learning8
action-recognition8
graph8
video-understanding8
lattice8
geometric-deep-learning8
temporal8
segment7
fpga7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kaidic/LDAM-DRW
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
[NeurIPS 2019] Learning Imbalanced Datasets with Label-Distribution-Aware Margin Loss
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
margindatasetneuripsneurips-2019imbalanced-learning
voyage-ai/voyageai-aws
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 reviews, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 11 months
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