Liangliang Cao
Principal Engineer Director At Gemini at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolLiangliang Cao is a Principal Engineer and Director at Gemini with 11 years of deep experience building and leading production-grade AI across vision, speech, and language. He has led large, cross-functional teams at Google and Apple, shipped state-of-the-art vision-language and end-to-end ASR models, and steered major commercial wins for Google Cloud. A former academic and instructor at Columbia and UMass, he combines rigorous research instincts with practical product delivery and a track record of startup founding and technical leadership. His career blends top-tier lab achievements (IBM, Yahoo! Labs) with hands-on ML systems work that accelerated multimedia pipelines and drove measurable business impact. Based in Mountain View, he mentors engineers, invests as a self-described “lazy angel investor,” and brings a disciplined, humble approach reflected in his Chinese motto of modesty, honesty, diligence, agility, and courage.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Engineering; Electronic Engineering and Information Science, Bachelor Engineering; Electronic Engineering and Information Science at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)PhD student ECE, PhD student ECE at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
material-ui10
svg10
language-design10
bundler10
vuejs210
command-line-tool10
browser10
skia10
html10
json10
apache10
commonjs10
splitting10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cdll/rem.css
May 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
x78w/x78w.github.io
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 years 10 months
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