Summary
Jiayuan Ma is a software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on computer vision, machine learning, and data mining, currently building systems at Meta from Palo Alto. He spent seven formative years at Snap, where he shipped production-facing vision features and scaled real-time multimedia pipelines. Jiayuan holds a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford and has a strong research background—teaching core computer vision and information retrieval courses and contributing to projects like face recognition and real-time logo detection. Early work includes internships at Apple and research at ADSC, plus student projects spanning compilers, Go AI, and image/video stitching, reflecting broad systems and algorithmic depth. Comfortable shifting between research and product engineering, he combines academic rigor with production discipline to turn novel vision techniques into reliable, scalable features. Peers note his long-term focus on practical CV problems and mentorship in interdisciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese