Ted Xiao
Founding Member Of Technical Staff at Prometheus
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Xiao is a founding member and technical leader with 12 years of experience building and research-driving AI systems, most recently transitioning from a Staff Research Scientist and Tech Lead role at Google DeepMind to help launch Project Prometheus. He specializes in multimodal foundation models, scaling, reinforcement learning, and embodied robot control, having led Gemini Robotics work that connects vision-language-action models for real-world robot tasks. Ted combines deep research pedigree (publications and Google Scholar presence) with hands-on engineering across full-stack projects—evidenced by frontend and schema work on community tooling like Kaffeine—to ship production features and instrument user analytics. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate and former founder of ML@B, he pairs technical depth with a track record of building communities and mentoring through teaching and leadership roles.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyDavis Senior High School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
coffeescript10
ruby-on-rails9
erb9
rails9
html9
activerecord8
google-analytics7
heroku7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
romainbutteaud/Kaffeine
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Keeping free Heroku apps awake.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Ted primarily contributed to the frontend of the application, modifying JavaScript and HTML/ERB files to implement new features and address user interactions. The changes include adding the ability for users to specify a bedtime, adding and adjusting the "unregister" functionality. The user also integrated Google Analytics and addressed issues with the delete method. Additionally, they introduced modifications to the database schema and model, which involved updating ActiveRecord migrations and controller logic.
herokuapp
txizzle/ReachabilityD3
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:71 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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