Quankai Gao
PhD Candidate
LA, China
Summary
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SeniorQuankai Gao is a CS PhD candidate at USC with eight years of research and industry experience bridging robotics, machine learning, and autonomous systems. He has interned at top-tier labs including Google, Adobe, and Waymo and contributed to robotics research at CMU’s Robotics Institute, bringing practical deployment perspective to academic problems. His work blends rigorous academic training with hands-on system building, evident from internships spanning perception to large-scale research engineering. A high-achieving automation undergrad from 华南理工大学 (3.72/4.0), he is equally comfortable prototyping novel algorithms and integrating them into production research pipelines. Not obviously stated on profiles, Quankai maintains a public research portfolio (zerg-overmind.github.io) that surfaces experiments and code, signaling a commitment to reproducible, open research.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
flux10
pytorch9
diffusers9
stable-diffusion9
diffusion-models9
image-generation9
deep-learning9
keras9
audio9
graph-neural-network9
computer-vision9
graph-convolutional-networks8
point-cloud8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Zerg-Overmind/Zerg-Overmind.github.io
Apr 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:183 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Zerg-Overmind/zerg-overmind.github.io
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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