About

Hello! I'm Guangzong Chen. I hold a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (August 2025) and a B.S. in Automation from the Beijing Institute of Technology. I am currently working at Google in the Platform and Infrastructure team. My interests include embedded systems and machine learning.

Guangzong Chen

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    August 2019 - August 2025
    Advisors: Zhi-Hong Mao (Homepage), Mingui Sun

  • B.S. in Automation
    Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
    September 2015 - June 2019

Work Experience

Software Engineer, Platform and Infrastructure
Google, Sunnyvale, USA
August 2025 - Present

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
January 2020 - August 2025

Firmware Engineer Intern
Nimbus Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
May 2020 - August 2020

Contact

Publications

  • G. Chen, Z.-H. Mao, M. Sun, K. Liu, and W. Jia, “Shape-preserving generation of food images for automatic dietary assessment,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 3721–3731, June 2024.

  • G. Chen, W. Jia, Y. Zhao, Z.-H. Mao, B. Lo, A. K. Anderson, G. Frost, M. L. Jobarteh, M. A. McCrory, E. Sazonov, M. Steiner-Asiedu, R. S. Ansong, T. Baranowski, L. Burke, and M. Sun, “Food/Non-Food classification of real-life egocentric images in low- and middle-income countries based on image tagging features,” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4, Apr 2021.

  • G. Chen, M. Sun, Z.-H. Mao, K. Liu, and W. Jia, “Mechanisms of generative image-to-image translation networks,” Accepted, Nov 2024.

  • M. Sun, W. Jia, G. Chen, M. Hou, J. Chen, and Z.-H. Mao, “Improved wearable devices for dietary assessment using a new camera system,” Sensors, vol. 22, no. 20, p. 8006, 2022.

  • W. Jia, B. Li, Q. Xu, G. Chen, Z.-H. Mao, M. A. McCrory, T. Baranowski, L. E. Burke, B. Lo, and A. K. Anderson, “Image-based volume estimation for food in a bowl,” Journal of Food Engineering, vol. 372, p. 111943, 2024.

  • K. Liu, G. Chen, K. Woeppel, X. T. Cui, and R. Kubendran, “Active Impedance Monitoring in Programmable Stimulator for Closed-Loop Charge Balancing,” submitted.

  • W. Jia, Y. Zheng, B. Li, K. Chen, G. Chen, J. Chen, Z.-H. Mao, and M. Sun, “Automatic Counting of Carbohydrate Intake for Individuals with Diabetes Using Large Language Models,” submitted.

Unpublished Documents

This section contains documents that have not been published. There may be mistakes and typos in these documents, but the main results and experiments should be correct.