Quankai Gao
PhD Candidate
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQuankai Gao is a CS PhD candidate at USC with eight years of research and industry experience bridging robotics, machine learning, and autonomous systems. He has interned at top-tier labs including Google, Adobe, and Waymo and contributed to robotics research at CMU’s Robotics Institute, bringing practical deployment perspective to academic problems. His work blends rigorous academic training with hands-on system building, evident from internships spanning perception to large-scale research engineering. A high-achieving automation undergrad from 华南理工大学 (3.72/4.0), he is equally comfortable prototyping novel algorithms and integrating them into production research pipelines. Not obviously stated on profiles, Quankai maintains a public research portfolio (zerg-overmind.github.io) that surfaces experiments and code, signaling a commitment to reproducible, open research.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, 3.72/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, 3.72/4.0 at 华南理工大学
Github Skills (49)
audio10
flux10
polygons9
pytorch9
diffusers9
stable-diffusion9
diffusion-models9
image-generation9
deep-learning9
keras9
geometry8
computer-vision8
triangulation8
graph-convolutional-networks8
point-cloud8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Zerg-Overmind/Zerg-Overmind.github.io
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:172 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Zerg-Overmind/QC-DGM
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
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