I am a principal engineer/director at Google. Previously Previously I worked as a scientist/engineer at Apple, Google, Yahoo!, and IBM, as well as as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University and UMass. I was a recipient of the ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award. I won 1st place in the ImageNet LSVRC Challenge in 2010. In 2016, I co-founded a startup named Switi Inc., which was acquired by Google Cloud in 2018. Here is my CV (updated June 2024).
Liangliang Cao
Google Inc.Personal email: llcao[at]cs.umass.edu
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Bio
News
- Apple Intelligence was announced in WWDC'24! It was a great experience to act as a modeling lead and engineering lead to support a number of AI features.
- New paper and code for "Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere" are available.
- The ImageNet Adversarial Text Regions (ImageNet-Atr) dataset is available. It is similar to the ImageNet eval set, but challenging for typical CLIP models. For example, the Open-CLIP B-16 trained from LAION dataset got a top-1 zero-shot accuracy of 29.4%.
Recent Essays
- Modern AI R&D Differs from Classic Research
- Does your AI need a (good) screen?
- Book reading notes: The heartbeats of AI development
- Understanding LLMs through the analysis of search engines
- The struggles of New Bing: insights for AI products in the genAI era.
- Can content generation AI become the next Web search?
Recent Projects
- Apple Intelligence: modeling and engineering lead, 2023-2024
- Google Cloud Vision: proposed the Cloud Multimodal Services, 2022
- Google Speech: team lead for Cloud speech modeling, 2018 - 2021
- Google-Verizon Contact Center AI: tech lead and sales engineer lead to win one of the largest contracts in the history of Cloud AI, 2019