Jiaying Yang
Co-Founder & CTO at BeFreed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJiaying Yang is a Co-Founder and CTO with nine years of machine learning and engineering experience, currently building BeFreed while serving as Founder in Residence at Afore Capital in San Francisco. She brings a strong research-to-production track record—earning a Ph.D. from UPenn and shipping LLM solutions (starting from GPT-2) as a Senior ML Engineer at Pinterest after earlier computer vision and signal-processing work at Columbia, Zurich North America, and Fudan. Her background spans academic rigor and product impact, from city-scale traffic estimation to adtech-scale language models. Jiaying pairs hands-on model development with startup leadership, and she has an uncommon combination of deep ML research credentials and practical experience navigating licensing/security from her SAP open-source governance role.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Fudan UniversityMaster's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (54)
vsix10
bots10
yeoman10
sdk10
get-started9
dotnet9
microsoft-cognitive-services9
bot-framework9
python8
typescript8
javascript8
notebook8
jupyter8
csharp8
portable7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CathyQian/Data-Structures-and-Algorithms
Jul 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:321 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
CathyQian/Courses_and_Certificates
Jun 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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