Peter Chao
Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Chao is a machine learning engineer with 9 years of experience who blends industry impact and academic rigor, currently building ML systems at TikTok while pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at Columbia University. He has delivered production-grade computer vision and active learning solutions—most notably a CNN-based cancer cell detector with 95% accuracy and an active learning pipeline that cut labeling needs by 70%—and has accelerated model training through algorithmic optimization. His research on adversarial defenses and publications in venues like IEEE IoT Journal and CVPR’s AdvML Workshop reflect a strong research-to-product pipeline. Comfortable across Python, C, PyTorch and TensorFlow, he also brings cloud and teaching experience from Columbia, where he mentored industry-aligned capstone teams and taught cloud computing topics. Notably, his prior academic work improved drone localization precision by 30% and translated course materials into a textbook adopted department-wide, showing a knack for both deep technical contributions and practical knowledge transfer.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Communication Engineering, Master of Science - MS Communication Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Communication Engineering at National Central UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor's degree | Transfer Student Computer Science, Bachelor's degree | Transfer Student Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (9)
swift8
ios7
objective-c7
macos7
xcode6
cocoapods6
carthage5
python4
cli3
Github contributions (5)
Space-X/zzjis
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Space-X/BDGX
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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