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Chang Gao (高畅)

I am currently a Research Engineer at the Apple Foundation Models (AFM) team. I design, develop and deploy multimodal large language models. Before joining Apple, I was a Tech Lead and Perception Engineer at Waymo,

I received B.Eng in Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong and M.S. in Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University, with research focuses on LLMs, AI/ML, Computer Vision, and Robotics. I am from Weihai.

Last Update: Jan 2026

Contact Me

Google Scholar • LinkedIn • GitHub • X/Twitter • cgao96-at-gmail.com

Since there are multiple researchers who share the same name as me, I go by cgao96 as my UID. Opinions are my own on all social media.

My Life Goals

  • Benefit people.

    • I focus my career on advancing state-of-the-art technologies that directly benefit people.

    • Previously at Waymo, I was delivering autonomous driving technology from zero to 150K+ rides per week. Now at Apple I am developing multimodal LLM for 2B+ users.

    • I coaches LeetCode for free, with around 10k GitHub stars.

  • Develop one great product.

    • Before my retirement, I plan to develop one great product that can stand the test of time.

    • If you are also interested, feel free to contact me.

Miscellaneous

Instagram: @cgao96__

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