Summary
Kuo-hao Zeng is a research-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of embodied AI, computer vision, and large visual-language models, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. He has moved between research and product-forward labs—founding research scientist at Vercept and research roles at AI2—bringing applied RL and perception work toward practical agents. His background blends a PhD-level understanding from the University of Washington with hands-on internships at NVIDIA and Meta, enabling both novel model development and implementation at scale. Kuo-hao’s work repeatedly centers on building embodied and computer-use agents, signaling a specialty in closing the loop between perception, language, and action. Colleagues describe him as someone who migrates research ideas into deployable systems, with an atypical depth spanning mechanical engineering origins to modern deep learning. Based in Seattle, he pairs academic rigor with startup agility to push forward multimodal and embodied AI capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
B.S., Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering at National Sun Yat-Sen University
Masters' degree, Electrical Engineering, Masters' degree, Electrical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University
Visiting Student, Computer Science, Visiting Student, Computer Science at Stanford University