Xiao Hu
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolXiao Hu is an Applied Scientist II with a PhD in Computer Vision and a decade of experience turning research-grade models into scalable ML systems for embodied AI, video understanding, and generative vision-language applications. He has bridged academia and industry—publishing at top venues while building deployable pipelines at organizations including Amazon, Noah’s Ark Lab, and the National Research Council of Canada. His work spans 3D reconstruction, SLAM, and vision-language model fine-tuning, and he has practical experience designing model-based RL reward models and large-scale VL benchmarks. Xiao also brings production engineering chops from cloud and automation roles, which help him reliably move prototypes into CI-backed deployments. Based in Ottawa, he blends deep theoretical expertise with hands-on system design that reduces operational burden in real-world sensing and inspection workflows.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer science, Bachelor's degree Computer science at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Ottawa
French, English, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
stereo8
ieee7
rgb7
slam6
eval6
inpainting6
dynamic6
mobilenet5
backbone4
coco3
visual-recognition3
efficientnet3
deeplab3
pytorch3
enet3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
haliphinx/haliphinx.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
haliphinx/SEQ_ORB_SLAM2
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:49 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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