Summary
Ning Gao is a Machine Learning Engineer at Google with a PhD in Autonomous Learning Robots from KIT and roughly nine years of experience bridging academic research and industrial AI. His work focuses on meta‑learning and self‑supervised methods to build efficient, generalizable representations for diverse robotic tasks such as grasping, 6D pose estimation, segmentation, and language-vision problems. During his doctoral research at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence he combined probabilistic models with deep meta‑learning for robust estimation in autonomous manipulation, and earlier projects benchmarked and extended 6DoF pose methods on synthetic industrial data. Based in Mountain View, he brings both systems-level engineering experience—from C++/MATLAB robotics code to production ML—and a researcher's rigor for systematic evaluation, making him adept at turning novel learning ideas into practical robotic solutions.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor Automotive Engineering, Bachelor Automotive Engineering at Tongji University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
English, Chinese, German, Japanese