Oscar Xu
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolOscar Xu is a CTO and PhD student in computer science with nine years of experience building and researching machine learning systems at the intersection of academia and industry. He has led engineering and research efforts at Rabdos AI and UC Berkeley’s BAIR lab, contributing to papers on model initialization, dropout for underfitting, and anytime dense prediction—work that bridges theory and production-facing ML. His internship at Twitter focused on video and social ranking, reflecting applied expertise in large-scale recommendation and ranking systems. Trained at Berkeley and now at Penn, he combines rigorous research instincts with hands-on product delivery, often translating academic insights into deployable models. Based in Philadelphia, he brings both startup CTO pragmatism and deep research provenance to AI system design and leadership.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISUDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (20)
memory-efficient10
user-friendly10
cuda10
chainer9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
adb9
scalable9
multiprocessing8
pytorch8
neural-network8
distributed-training7
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
tensorflow7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
liuzhuang13/anytime
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
OscarXZQ/weight-selection
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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