Chia-Hsiang Kao (高家祥)

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Hi, I am a second-year CS PhD student at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Bharath Hariharan and Kavita Bala, focusing on vision, LLM agent, code generation, and deep learning algorithms. My research goal lies in building robust, trustworthy, and interpretable AI system.

Before joining Cornell, I obtained my Medical Doctor degree 🩺 from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan. I am fortunate to work with Dr. Pin-Yu Chen at MIT-IBM Research, Prof. Wei-Chen Chiu and Prof. Li-Fen Chen at NYCU, and Prof. Yu-Chiang Frank Wang at NTU


Publication
Counter-Current Learning: A Biologically Plausible Dual Network Approach for Deep Learning
Chia-Hsiang Kao, Bharath Hariharan
We design a non-backpropagation learning algorithm that mimicks the counter-current exchange mechanisms observed in biological systems.
AllClear: A Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Cloud Removal in Satellite Imagery
Hangyu Zhou*, Chia-Hsiang Kao*, Cheng Perng Phoo, Utkarsh Mall, Bharath Hariharan, Kavita Bala
We build up the largest collection of satellite images with cloud occlusions.
Caduceus: Bi-directional equivariant long-range dna sequence modeling
Yair Schiff, Chia-Hsiang Kao, Aaron Gokaslan, Tri Dao, Albert Gu, Volodymyr Kuleshov
We design a DNA foundation model, specialized in long-context sequence modeling, combining the bi-directional equivariant intuition.
FedBug: A Bottom-Up Gradual Unfreezing Framework for Federated Learning
Chia-Hsiang Kao, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang
We design a federated learning framework to mitigate the dataset shift by gradually unfreezing the model.
MAML Is a Noisy Contrastive Learner in Classification
Chia-Hsiang Kao, Wei-Chen Chiu, Pin-Yu Chen
We show that Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) acts as contrastive leaerning.
Awards and Scholarships
2021
Student Travel Award, MICCAI
2020
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
2018
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
2018
Summer Research Fellowship, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
Services
Conference
AAAI[25], AISTATS[25], AutoML[22], ICLR[25], NeurIPS[21,24]
Interests
🏊🏼 and 🏄
Got a lifeguard license at 18!
🏃 and 🏞️
One half-marathon, two 10Ks, and five 8.9Ks so far!
🎤 and 🎸
Used to play the viola, but play the guitar more now!

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