Weihao Gao
Researcher at ByteDance
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolWeihao Gao is a researcher and engineer with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UIUC and about four years of industry experience building ML-driven systems and production back-ends. He has led cross-disciplinary teams at ByteDance on recommendation algorithms and AI-for-science projects—publishing work on end-to-end learnable retrieval and machine-learned force fields for battery electrolytes—and recently focused on LLM systems at Moonshot AI. On the engineering side he contributes to high-performance Go infrastructure (notably the cloudwego/hertz HTTP framework), improving connection handling, cookie behavior, and route generation robustness. Comfortable spanning research and production, he pairs rigorous theoretical grounding with pragmatic engineering to ship scalable, high-throughput services. Based in Beijing’s Haidian District, he blends academic depth with hands-on open-source and product impact.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
microservices-application10
go10
microservices10
testing9
error-handling9
cookie8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudwego/hertz
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Go HTTP framework with high-performance and strong-extensibility for building micro-services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:814 reviews, 69 commits, 248 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Weihao primarily contributed to the Hertz HTTP framework, focusing on improving the handling of connections and error scenarios. They implemented features to close connections after short-connection requests, optimize code, and added improvements for cookie handling. The user also worked on refactoring cookie functionality and fixing various typos and code segments within the codebase. Their work also involved optimizing the code and fixing a bug related to route generation.
extensibilitygo-httpmicroservicesgo
hertz-contrib/http2
Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
HTTP2 support for Hertz
Contributions:1 release, 31 reviews, 3 PRs in 1 year
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