Zhihao Li
Staff Software Engineer, TLM at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhihao Li is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in applied machine learning, multimodal deep learning, and computer vision with a decade of experience building production AI at Google and DeepMind. He has driven high-impact projects across search and multimodality, contributed to Gemini 2.5, and won Google’s 2024 Search Tech Impact Award for Multimodal GenAI work. His prior AR-focused research at Magic Leap and ARCore includes shipping monocular 6DoF object pose estimation and a deployed hand-tracking/gesture system, blending geometric vision with compact, on-device models. Zhihao pairs research rigor from his CMU graduate work on neural–cortex parallels with pragmatic engineering to move models from prototype to product. Based in Mountain View, he’s known for tackling end-to-end problems—data pipelines through model compression—and for an understated coder’s curiosity reflected in ongoing GitHub activity.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering at Tongji UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityStudy Abroad Computer Science, Study Abroad Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
geospatial-analysis9
deck-gl9
visualization9
maps9
data-visualization8
javascript8
threejs8
webgl8
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Chumhoo/Printer-Pro
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Chumhoo/GraphicMaster
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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