Xiao Hu
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolXiao Hu is an Applied Scientist II with a PhD in Computer Vision and a decade of experience turning research-grade models into scalable ML systems for embodied AI, video understanding, and generative vision-language applications. He has bridged academia and industry—publishing at top venues while building deployable pipelines at organizations including Amazon, Noah’s Ark Lab, and the National Research Council of Canada. His work spans 3D reconstruction, SLAM, and vision-language model fine-tuning, and he has practical experience designing model-based RL reward models and large-scale VL benchmarks. Xiao also brings production engineering chops from cloud and automation roles, which help him reliably move prototypes into CI-backed deployments. Based in Ottawa, he blends deep theoretical expertise with hands-on system design that reduces operational burden in real-world sensing and inspection workflows.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer science, Bachelor's degree Computer science at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Ottawa
French, English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
stereo8
dynamicobject7
inpainting7
slam7
dynamic6
eval5
3d4
mobilenet4
editable4
vision-and-language3
segmentation3
coco3
pytorch3
xception3
deeplab2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
haliphinx/SEQ_ORB_SLAM
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:49 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
haliphinx/haliphinx.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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