Shaobo Hou
Senior Research Engineer at DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShaobo Hou is a Senior Research Engineer at DeepMind with 14 years' experience applying deep learning, reinforcement learning and large language models to real-world problems. He progressed from academia to industry—holding a PhD and roles at SwiftKey and Microsoft—bringing both research rigor and production-grade engineering. At DeepMind since 2017 he bridges cutting-edge model development with systems-level implementation, enabling scalable ML research. Early work on computer vision and thermal-imaging algorithms shows a knack for extracting signal from noisy data, a skill he now applies to modern multimodal and language-focused systems. Based in London, he combines long-form research experience with practical product impact across NLP and RL.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
pytorch9
machine-learning9
python8
jit8
deep-learning8
automatic-differentiation8
composable8
gpu8
static-analysis8
autodiff8
linter8
analyzer8
static-code-analysis7
code-analysis7
jax7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google-deepmind/tf2jax
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 72 commits in 10 months
shaobohou/.emacs.d
Aug 2012 - Jun 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 10 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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