Tao Xu
Staff Applied Research Scientist at Meta
Deyang, Sichuan, China
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Top SchoolTao Xu is a Staff Applied Research Scientist with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry productization in deep learning, computer vision, and medical image analysis. She holds a PhD from Lehigh University and has worked on GANs, diffusion models, and transformer-based perception across Meta and Cruise, currently focusing on image-to-video generative AI. Her background includes influential internship work on text-to-image generation (AttnGAN) and practical systems for autonomous driving and intelligent surveillance, reflecting both foundational research and applied engineering. Based in Deyang, China, she blends rigorous academic training with production-facing model development, often turning generative research ideas into scalable prototypes. An underappreciated thread in her career is a steady focus on fine-grained classification and realistic image augmentation, linking synthetic data techniques to real-world robustness.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Lehigh UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Agricultural Mechanization, Bachelor of Science (BS) Agricultural Mechanization at China Agricultural University
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
taoxugit/AttnGAN
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 7 months
taoxugit/StackGAN-pytorch
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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