Ethan
Shanghai, China
Summary
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SeniorChongyang Ma is a tech lead manager at ByteDance with a decade of experience translating cutting‑edge graphics and vision research into production systems across industry leaders like Kuaishou, Snap, and Activision. He holds a PhD in computer graphics from Tsinghua and completed postdocs at UBC and USC, building deep expertise in human digitization, face tracking, motion capture, and generative image/video models. His career blends academic rigor with product impact—moving from facial performance capture for games to research-driven features in social media platforms. Known for democratizing visual content creation since his PhD, he bridges research, engineering, and team leadership to operationalize complex 3D and vision pipelines. Based in San Jose, he brings both a strong mathematical foundation and hands-on experience shipping production systems at scale. An understated strength is his continuity across roles—from research intern at Microsoft Research Asia to leading research teams—giving him rare end-to-end perspective on innovation to deployment.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
controlling10
causal-inference9
python9
causal9
causality9
statistics9
double9
orthogonal8
data-analysis8
microsoft-research8
decision-making8
sdk8
machine-learning8
economics8
data-science8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MarkovSc/DeepCTR_tensorflow_keras_pytorch
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
MarkovSc/GraphMiningFraud
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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