Curriculum Vitae

Jiasheng Gu

Research Engineer, NVIDIA GEAR

NVIDIA GEAR Research Engineer working on robotic foundation models, large language models, and vision-language models. Research background spans natural language processing, code generation, instruction robustness, efficient vision networks, and biomedical AI analysis.

Experience

Work Experience

NVIDIA

Sep. 2025 - Present

Research Engineer · Shanghai, China · On-site

  • Work on artificial intelligence and Python systems for robotic foundation models, large language models, and vision-language models for embodied agents.
  • Contribute to world-action model research for generalist robot policies and cross-embodiment transfer.
  • Build research systems at the intersection of multimodal foundation models, robot learning, and embodied AI.

Alibaba Group

Feb. 2025 - Jul. 2025

Algorithm Engineer · Hangzhou, China · On-site

  • Worked on Python-based algorithm engineering.

01.AI

Oct. 2023 - Jan. 2025

Algorithm Engineer · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · On-site

  • Worked on large language model systems with PyTorch.

Focus

Research Interests

Background

Education

University of Southern California

Aug. 2021 - May 2023

Honor M.S.

  • GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • Relevant coursework: deep learning, probability, linear algebra, parallel computing

Xidian University

Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2021

B.E. in Telecommunications Engineering

  • GPA: 3.6/4.0, Top 10%
  • Relevant coursework: data structures, calculus, discrete mathematics

Projects

Research Experience

Pennsylvania State University

Jun. 2022 - Oct. 2022

Research collaborator · Mentor: Wenpeng Yin

  • Studied robustness of learning from task instructions.
  • Experimented with and analyzed instruction-tuned models under perturbed instructions.

North Carolina State University

Aug. 2022 - 2023

Research collaborator · Mentor: Dongkuan Xu and Xipeng Shen

  • Worked on zero-shot code generation via rule-AI co-learning from documents.
  • Proposed a framework combining rule-based and AI-based methods to generate DSL code.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Apr. 2023 - Jun. 2023

Research collaborator · Mentor: Pengfei Liu

  • Trained LLaMA-13B through continued pretraining and finetuning on curated math datasets.
  • Improved model performance on mathematical reasoning tasks.

University of Southern California

Aug. 2022 - Dec. 2022

Research collaborator · Mentor: Peter A. Beerel

  • Designed visual networks with very low FLOPs.
  • Proposed and evaluated dilated depthwise convolution for capturing global information.

Dartmouth College

May 2022 - Sep. 2022

Research collaborator · Mentor: Soroush Vosoughi

  • Analyzed the evolution of artificial intelligence techniques in biomedical publications.
  • Developed an analysis method for biomedical AI publication trends.

ETH Zurich

Jun. 2020 - Oct. 2020

Research collaborator · Mentor: Yuyi Wang

  • Designed pre-training tasks for text summarization.
  • Used learned metrics to identify high-importance sentences as summaries for more effective pre-training.

Applied work

Industry Experience

Lime

May 2022 - Aug. 2022

SDE Intern

  • Improved system scalability by refactoring timed feature extraction and computation.
  • Optimized timed computations to improve overall system efficiency.

Transwarp

Jan. 2021 - Apr. 2021

NLP Intern

  • Designed and implemented a hybrid long-text summarization system.
  • Combined DGCNN-based extractive summarization with BART-based abstractive refinement.

Google Scholar

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    Instruction

    Teaching

    University of Southern California

    Fall 2022

    Teaching Assistant

    • EE 503: Probability for Electrical and Computer Engineers

    Reviewing

    Professional Service

    Recognition

    Awards

    2021

    Masters Students Honors Program

    USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    2018

    National Scholarship

    Xidian University

    Tools

    Skills

    Programming

    • Python
    • C++
    • C
    • R
    • Java
    • SQL
    • JavaScript
    • HTML
    • MATLAB

    Frameworks

    • PyTorch
    • TensorFlow
    • OpenCV
    • NumPy
    • Scikit-learn
    • SciPy

    Tools

    • Git
    • LaTeX
    • SPSS
    • Mathematica
    • AWS
    • GCP
    • Docker
    • MongoDB

    Contact

    References

    Available upon request.