Keli Cheng is a Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm with 11 years of experience building efficient 3D vision and facial avatar systems optimized for low-power handsets and head-mounted devices. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Zhejiang University and has led end-to-end work spanning parametric model fitting, animation, anti-spoofing, and mobile 3D reconstruction. Keli is known for translating cutting-edge research into production-ready pipelines that deliver photorealistic avatars under stringent compute and power constraints. Her career includes inventing system-level optimizations for digital image stabilization on drones and pushing real-time telecommunication-grade 3D avatars into consumer hardware. Based in California, she combines deep algorithmic expertise with pragmatic engineering to ship scalable, device-compatible graphics and vision solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Chongqing University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Zhejiang University
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