Likun Cai
Doctoral Student at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLikun Cai is a first-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto researching neural compression and learning under Prof. Ashish Khisti. With nine years of experience across academic and industry research roles, Likun has contributed to vision-language pre-training, open-vocabulary object detection, large-scale dataset construction, and unsupervised image segmentation at organizations including AWS, Xiaohongshu, Tencent, and ShanghaiTech. Their work blends theory (bi-level optimization) and practical systems (BigDetection dataset and mobile makeup transfer pipelines), showing a knack for turning research ideas into reusable datasets and applied models. Actively seeking internships and research collaborations, Likun brings multidisciplinary training from ShanghaiTech, Xidian, and prior PhD work at Fudan, and a unique focus on compressing learned representations for efficient vision and ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ShanghaiTech UniversityPhD student, Computer Sicence, PhD student, Computer Sicence at Fudan UniversityBachelor's degree, Spatial Information and Digital Technology, Bachelor's degree, Spatial Information and Digital Technology at Xidian UniversityPhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (22)
detector10
benchmark9
arxiv9
computer-vision8
object-detection8
scale8
large-scale8
pytorch7
deep-learning7
video-compression5
image5
classification4
clustering4
segmentation3
backbone3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cailk/cailk.github.io
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
amazon-science/bigdetection
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 3 months
pytorchimproveddeep-learningobject-detectorcomputer-vision
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