Rui Cao
Research Assistant at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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Top SchoolRui Cao is a robotics-focused research engineer with nine years of experience applying AI and control to real-world manipulation problems, currently a Research Assistant at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work centers on object pose estimation and deep-learning-based grasp synthesis for bin-picking and household manipulation, bridging perception and practical robotic grasping. Rui has industrial experience developing robotics solutions at the Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics and hands-on electromechanical design from a stint at the Chinese Academy of Sciences building motor drivers. Trained across electrical engineering and AI at Beijing Jiaotong, Sungkyunkwan, and CUHK, he combines systems-level hardware insight with modern learning-based methods—an advantage when moving algorithms from lab prototypes toward deployable automation.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering and Automation, GPA:85/100, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering and Automation, GPA:85/100 at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityArtificial Intelligence, 4.2/4.5, Artificial Intelligence, 4.2/4.5 at Sungkyunkwan UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (45)
data-generation9
speech9
point-cloud9
latex8
image-editing8
3d8
robotics8
resume6
deep-learning6
ros5
actor-critic5
occlusion5
stable-diffusion5
git4
openai-gym4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rcao-hk/graspnet-baseline
Oct 2022 - Jun 2026
Baseline model for "GraspNet-1Billion: A Large-Scale Benchmark for General Object Grasping" (CVPR 2020)
Contributions:122 pushes in 3 years 8 months
pytorchobject-graspingcvpr-2020scalebenchmark
rcao-hk/td3_her_rlbench_reacher
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
A implementation for soving reach target task based on TD3 with HER using PaddlePaddle.
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
paddlepaddle
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