Ji Yang
Partner (Tech And AI) at AltaML
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJi Yang is a Partner in Tech and AI with 11 years of engineering and research experience, currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Alberta. A Kaggle Competition Master (world rank ~300) with multiple medals, he blends top-tier competitive ML skills with applied research in 3D pose, shape, and object reconstruction. He co-founded a generative AI healthcare startup and helps build AI products for international students at CollegeLand, demonstrating a strong founder-to-product mindset. His open-source contributions span deep learning education and practical ML projects—ranging from LSTM stock predictors to UI improvements in an Electron-based WeChat client—highlighting both backend model work and frontend UX polish. Comfortable moving between research, production ML, and product engineering, he brings rare cross-domain fluency useful for turning complex vision models into usable systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision and Machine Learning at University of AlbertaDeep Learning Nano Degree Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning Nano Degree Artificial Intelligence at UdacityIPP, IPP at China Foreign Affairs University
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
python10
electron10
css10
pandas10
machine-learning10
numpy10
data-preprocessing10
keras10
lstm10
deep-learning10
html10
logistic-regression10
linux9
time-series9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Kulbear/stock-prediction
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Stock price prediction with recurrent neural network. The data is from the Chinese stock.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ji contributed significantly to a stock price prediction project. Their work involved data preparation, including importing and manipulating stock data using the `tushare` library in Python, as demonstrated by the "Data Preparation" notebook and supporting script. Furthermore, the user implemented and documented an LSTM-based recurrent neural network model for stock price prediction.
chinesestock-pricepythonpredictionmachine-learning
Kulbear/deep-learning-coursera
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng on Coursera.
Role in this project:ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:43 commits, 10 PRs, 35 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ji implemented and demonstrated a logistic regression model with a neural network mindset. The user worked on logistic regression with a neural network implementation with the creation of several functions to initialize parameters, calculate the cost function, and compute its gradient. The user combined the functions into a main model function to recognize cats.
specializationandrew-ngdeep-learningmachine-learningdeep-learning-specialization
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