Zhaowei Cai
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhaowei Cai is a Senior Applied Scientist with nine years of experience specializing in computer vision and machine learning, currently working on multimodal foundation models at Amazon AGI in Pasadena. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and has a strong research background with internships at Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM, plus research roles in academia and at AWS. His expertise spans vision-and-language understanding, object detection, semi- and self-supervised learning, and efficient neural networks, with a track record of translating cutting-edge research into applied systems. Notably, he maintains an active professional webpage showcasing his work, reflecting a disciplined blend of deep research and production-focused engineering.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor's degree, Automation, Bachelor's degree, Automation at Dalian Maritime University
Github Skills (23)
caffe10
object-detection10
autonomous-driving10
detectron9
visual-question-answering9
semi-supervised-learning7
prompt-tuning7
machine-learning7
weakly-supervised-learning6
deep-learning6
self-supervised-learning5
normalization5
multimodal5
pdf5
convolutional-neural-networks5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhaoweicai/zhaoweicai.github.io
Apr 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:269 pushes in 6 years 2 months
zhaoweicai/Detectron-Cascade-RCNN
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Cascade R-CNN in Detectron
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
detectron
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