Zhi-qi Cheng
Assistant Professor at University of Washington
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolZhi-qi Cheng is an assistant professor and graduate faculty member at the University of Washington Tacoma School of Engineering & Technology with nine years of experience bridging academia, industry, and government-funded research. His work centers on multimodal AI, multimedia event understanding, and intelligent transportation, translating large-scale research (DARPA KAIROS, NIST PSIAP, IARPA DIVA) into deployed systems and public-agency collaborations. He has led production-scale computer vision and recommendation projects at Alibaba that powered mobile shopping features with millions of daily users, and later advanced multimodal reasoning and system integration at Carnegie Mellon. A proven educator, he develops and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses while supervising PhD research and shaping graduate policy. Less obvious: he combines national-security-grade event understanding experience with commercial productization expertise, enabling cross-domain impact from research prototypes to mass-market services. Based in Pittsburgh, he maintains an active academic-industry network spanning top labs and multidisciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Southwest Jiaotong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (advised by Prof. Alex Hauptmann) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (advised by Prof. Alex Hauptmann) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (advised by Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (advised by Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo) Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
representation-learning5
regularization4
deep-learning3
spatial3
counting2
computer-vision2
pytorch1
hierarchical1
coreference1
mining1
forum1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhiqicheng/awesome-grounding
May 2019 - May 2022
awesome grounding: A curated list of research papers in visual grounding
Contributions:1 push in 3 years
deep-learninggroundingresearch-papersvisual-grounding
zhiqicheng/zhiqicheng.github.io
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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