Bio
Tianshi Gao, Ph.D. is the Principal AI Scientist at Cruise. He is a machine learning expert and a published author with over a decade of experience.
Before joining Cruise, Tianshi was the lead machine learning (ML) scientist and engineer at Facebook. He led and scaled a team of 50+ ML engineers, scientists, and managers to increase ad matching and conversion rate through ads ranking and personalization. His team developed fundamental ML and AI technologies spanning sparse neural network architectures, distributed training algorithms, optimization, counterfactual evaluation and learning, and more. Tianshi’s team was one of the teams responsible for Facebook’s 40% ad revenue growth over the last seven years.
Tianshi is also a prolific author, having published nine papers in five years. Three of his papers were selected to be presented at NeurIPS and ICCV, an honor that less than 7% of submitted papers received. He has been published as first author in every top computer vision and machine learning conference, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML,
and NeurIPS.
Tianshi has a Master’s and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His advisor and co-advisor at Stanford were Prof. Daphne Koller and Prof. Andrew Ng, the co-founders of Coursera. Tianshi earned his Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, where he graduated with honors.
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