Ming-chang Chiu
Founder at Stealth Startup
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMing-chang Chiu is a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech with 11 years of experience bridging machine learning research and applied systems across academia and industry. He specializes in multi-party agent interactions and safe, robust multimodal models, having contributed to award-winning generative work at Google Research (Best Paper, ICML 2024) and developed GPT-4-like visual-language models at NVIDIA. His background spans AI safety and robustness benchmarking at national labs, large-scale data-driven improvements to VLMs, and practical ML systems from high-performance computing to production translation pipelines. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he has a PhD from USC and a track record of turning benchmarks and data strategies into measurable model gains. An often-overlooked strength is his experience operationalizing defenses and OOD detection for vision-language models, reflecting a focus on deploying safe, real-world ML.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at National Tsing Hua UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Chinese, English, Mandarin
Github Skills (31)
data-generation9
speech9
chatbot9
foundation-models9
image-editing8
multimodal8
chatgpt7
mex6
llama6
stable-diffusion4
matlab4
visual-question-answering4
weakly-supervised-learning4
vision-and-language3
opencv3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
charismaticchiu/charismaticchiu.github.io
Jan 2016 - May 2025
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
charismaticchiu/TF-fileTypeDetection
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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