Kaiyu Zheng
Research Scientist at Meta
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaiyu Zheng is a research scientist based in California with 11 years of experience at the intersection of robotics, medical imaging, and generative AI. Currently contributing to next-generation multimodal large language model development at Meta, he previously led development of an adaptive unsupervised LLM-guided diffusion model that boosted MRI SNR by 150% and outperformed a SubtleMR baseline by 30%. His background spans academic visits at Tsinghua and UIUC, GAN-based 4D image reconstruction research, and hands-on data engineering at IBM, anchored by a PhD from the University of Washington and a technology entrepreneurship certificate. Kaiyu blends deep technical rigor with translational focus—turning advanced generative techniques into measurable clinical imaging gains—and brings a roboticist’s systems thinking to applied AI problems. He consistently bridges research and product impact, often favoring unsupervised and model-guided approaches that reduce dependence on labeled data.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of WashingtonBachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Wuhan UniversityTechnology Entrepreneurship Certificate (TEC), Technology Entrepreneurship Certificate (TEC) at UW Foster School of Business无 无, 无 无 at Beijing No.4 High School
Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (132)
python10
entity-linking10
lda10
deep-learning10
instance-segmentation10
cython10
greasemonkey10
tflite10
ros10
yolov510
robotics10
onnx10
markov-decision-processes10
neural10
ai10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zkytony/genmos_object_search
Feb 2023 - Oct 2024
GenMOS - A System for Generalized (off-the-shelf) 3D Multi-Object Search | ICRA 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
3d
h2r/sloop
Jun 2021 - May 2022
Spatial Language Object-Oriented POMDP (SLOOP)
Contributions:46 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
crosswordpomdpspatialobjectmapperobject-oriented
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