Werner Chao
Principal Software Engineer - Machine Learning at STMicroelectronics
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolWerner Chao is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and edge AI, with a decade of experience building efficient, deployable models and production systems. He currently leads hardware-aware optimization, compression, and quantization efforts at STMicroelectronics after his team’s acquisition from Deeplite, translating research ideas into high-performance edge solutions. His background spans fast-moving consumer-scale ML at Facebook, applied data science in finance at Scotiabank, and practical consulting and forecasting work with enterprise clients, giving him a strong blend of research, product, and business-facing experience. Werner holds both BASc and MASc degrees from the University of Toronto and has coached deep learning students, reflecting a commitment to mentoring and knowledge transfer. Notably, he focuses on making models not just accurate but resource-efficient for constrained hardware—a recurring throughline in his career. Based in Old Toronto, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to drive ML from prototype to silicon.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Bachelor of Applied Science at University of Toronto
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (35)
machine-translation10
image-processing10
ocr10
audio-processing10
scene-text10
deep-learning10
speech10
text-detection10
translate10
inpainting10
transformer10
signal-processing9
pytorch9
python9
io9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wernerchao/manga-image-translator
Feb 2023 - Mar 2026
Translate manga/image 一键翻译各类图片内文字 https://touhou.ai/imgtrans/
Contributions:8 reviews, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 1 month
wernerchao/files-and-images
Jul 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:74 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 8 months
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