Dawei L
Head Of Vision Direction, 360 Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at Qihoo 360
Haidian District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolDawei L is a computer vision leader with nine years of industry experience and a PhD from Tsinghua, currently heading vision research at 360 AI Research Institute where he focuses on multimodal large models, visual AIGC, vision-language learning, open-world detection, and AIoT. He has a proven track record of building AI teams and products end-to-end—from inventing high-impact models and training frameworks to deploying services at scale across national clients and devices. Prior roles include leading AI labs in legal-tech and drug-discovery, where he designed novel GNNs for out-of-distribution chemistry problems and production-grade OCR/HTR engines that outperformed commercial benchmarks. A pragmatic researcher-manager, he combines deep academic roots in image processing with hands-on delivery, having authored an open-source lightweight DL framework and established OKR+SCRUM practices to bridge domain experts and ML teams. Notably, his work repeatedly turns cutting-edge research into robust, widely deployed systems across regulated and industrial settings.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Communication Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Communication Engineering at Tianjin UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
python10
expressions10
image-viewer10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
numpy10
api10
neural-network10
tensor10
graceful10
jpeg-xl10
photo-editor10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
david-leon/Lasagne_Ext
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
david-leon/Pytorch_Ext
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 66 commits, 64 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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