Bo Gao

AI / ML Engineer

I'm currently an MSCS student at USC. I'm interested in agentic AI, RAG, and LLMs.

Previously I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer building large-scale recommender systems at Xiaohongshu (rednote) and JOYY, focused on retrieval models and strategies.

MS Computer Science at USC, May 2027. Open to full-time AI / ML engineering roles in the U.S.

Projects

All projects

Obsidian plugin Zettel Agent An Obsidian plugin that helps you think with your notes and build a Zettelkasten. LLM post-training Agentic RAG Post-training a small local model to work as a retrieval agent, with SFT and LoRA. Personal site BoGao.Dev Let's Build Something.

Open Source Contributions

UK AI Security Institute inspect_ai A framework for large language model evaluations, created by the UK AI Security Institute. Merged PR #5420 · 28 Sep 2026 Fix computer tool rejecting click actions without a coordinate Apple · ml-explore mlx-lm A Python package for generating text and fine-tuning large language models on Apple silicon with MLX. Merged PR #1898 · 18 Sep 2026 fix(qwen3): support rope_parameters config