Summary
Chengshuai Yang is a PhD-trained machine learning researcher and founder who now leads PlatformAI as CEO and Cofounder, building a “Digital Brain” control layer to keep future AI agents aligned with human values. With eight years of industry and academic experience including postdoctoral work at UCLA and a research fellowship at Westlake University, he has 20+ publications across ADMM, self-supervised learning, diffusion models, LLMs, and advanced imaging with first-author papers in ECCV, IJCV, Optica, and PRL. He combines deep computational-imaging expertise—practical light field and hyperspectral reconstructions—with applied LLM systems (DoctorBot, multimodal GPT for radiology) to push high-accuracy, mission-critical RAG deployments in semiconductors. At PlatformAI he’s shipping CompareGPT and SpiritAI, emphasizing transparent model comparison, long-term memory, and an embedded “Spirit” for value alignment—a pragmatic safety-first approach not common among startup founders. Known as a metaverse enthusiast on GitHub, he blends theoretical rigor with product execution, mentoring interns and scaling GPU infrastructure to turn research prototypes into commercial AI services.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational imaging machine learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational imaging machine learning at East China Normal University
University of California, Los Angeles