Piaoyang Cui
Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPiaoyang Cui is a Senior Staff Research Engineer in San Francisco with 7 years of experience building production AI, simulation, and ML infrastructure across startups and leading research labs. She bridges algorithms, data, and software engineering—driving agent and reasoning work at xAI and now DeepMind while shipping large-scale systems at Google and Nuro. She has led teams and product initiatives from founding technical leads to area-level tech leadership, and co-founded a stealth startup that produced widely noticed open-source projects like RealChar (featured #1 on GitHub Trending). Her background spans computer vision, localization, and generative AI, with patents and cross-functional launches in autonomy and enterprise AI. Comfortable moving between research and production, she’s known for turning POCs into operational systems and for a pragmatic focus on evaluation, RAG, and safety tooling. Fluent in both US and China tech ecosystems, she combines academic rigor (Columbia MS, Peking University) with entrepreneurial momentum.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Peking UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Columbia UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese, wu language
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Github Skills (64)
openai-api10
image-search10
vector-database10
similarity10
llm10
fine-tuning10
application10
nearest-neighbor-search9
data-structures9
chatgpt9
similarity-search9
vector-search9
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search9
golang9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shaunwei/RealChar
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
🎙️🤖Create, Customize and Talk to your AI Character/Companion in Realtime (All in One Codebase!). Have a natural seamless conversation with AI everywhere (mobile, web and terminal) using LLM OpenAI GPT3.5/4, Anthropic Claude2, Chroma Vector DB, Whisper Speech2Text, ElevenLabs Text2Speech🎙️🤖
Contributions:43 releases, 92 reviews, 328 PRs in 1 month
pycui/pond-solver
Feb 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 issues in 3 years 2 months
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