Yihao Cai
Graduate Research Assistant
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYihao Cai is an AI researcher and robotics engineer with eight years of experience developing safety-critical autonomy and real-time perception systems. Currently a PhD candidate and Graduate Research Assistant at Wayne State University (with a recent visiting scholar stint at TUM), he focuses on Physics-informed AI for control and safety in platforms like inverted pendulums and quadruped robots. His industry work spans deploying CV/ML on edge AI SoCs (Jetson AGX Orin) for robotic picking at ABB, to backend and DevOps engineering roles that strengthened container security and CI/CD pipelines. He brings a practical systems mindset—optimizing inference pipelines (ONNX→TF-TRT) for 5x speedups and inventing novel 2D-to-3D labeling techniques—alongside human-robot interaction research from WPI. Comfortable across firmware-to-cloud stacks and fluent in productionizing ML for constrained hardware, he blends rigorous academic inquiry with hands-on engineering chops.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Telecommunications Engineering at Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State UniversityChangjun High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master of Science - MS Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (16)
convolutional-neural-networks5
sparse5
semantic-segmentation5
computer-vision5
deep-learning4
pytorch4
manifold4
sdk4
machine-learning3
cuda3
ros3
configurations3
semantic3
tensorflow2
deep-neural-networks2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Charlescai123/Kinova-IBVS-Control
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:64 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Charlescai123/Charlescai123.github.io
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:57 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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