Liangliang Cao

Liangliang Cao is a highly experienced professional in the fields of artificial intelligence and engineering, currently serving as Principal Engineer/Director at Google within the Gemini team since September 2024. Prior roles include Principal Scientist at Apple from October 2022 to September 2024 and a series of significant positions at Google, including Senior Staff Research Scientist overseeing Cloud Vision modeling and Staff Research Scientist leading a major contract for Google CloudAI. Liangliang's academic contributions include positions as Visiting Researcher at UMass and Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. As a co-founder and CTO at Switi.Inc, Liangliang advanced AI-driven customer service solutions. Previous roles also encompass impactful research at Yahoo! Labs and IBM, where Liangliang received recognition for technical accomplishments and excellence in multimedia analysis. Liangliang holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and advanced degrees in Information Engineering and Electronic Engineering.