Zijian Cai
WASP PhD Student at WASP – Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program
Örebro, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolZijian Cai is a robotics-focused PhD student at WASP with eight years of experience blending computer vision, optimal control, and machine learning to tackle challenging manipulation problems, currently researching robotic handling of granular materials. He has a strong interdisciplinary background with an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and practical exchange experience at Luleå University of Technology, reflecting both theoretical rigor and hands-on engineering. Past projects include reinforcement-learning-driven autonomous exploration and a master thesis in human-robot systems at NEARLab-MRS, showcasing applied RL and system integration skills. Zijian is active in AI research areas spanning deep reinforcement learning, game programming, and NLP, indicating a breadth beyond classical robotics. Based in Örebro, Sweden, he brings a pragmatic researcher’s mindset—bridging simulation, control, and perception—to real-world robotic challenges. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate mechanical-design intuition into perception and learning solutions for complex physical interactions.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Örebro UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical engineering, 106/110, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical engineering, 106/110 at Politecnico di MilanoErasmus exchange, ENGINEERING, Erasmus exchange, ENGINEERING at Luleå University of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 88/100, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 88/100 at Wuhan University of Technology
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (38)
attention-mechanism10
tensor2tensor10
corpus9
dialogue-systems9
chatbot8
sentence-similarity8
generative8
adversarial-learning8
natural-language-generation8
translation8
semi-supervised-learning7
natural-language-processing7
sequence7
transformer-architecture7
transformer7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EternalFeather/Angel_Seasons_Renpy_RPG
Aug 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
EternalFeather/Transformer-in-generating-dialogue
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
An Implementation of 'Attention is all you need' with Chinese Corpus
Contributions:14 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
chinesechinese-corpusattention-isdialogue-systemsnatural-language-processing
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