Jimei Yang
Senior Manager, Research at Runway
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimei Yang is a research leader with 11 years of experience translating cutting-edge computer vision research into production products, currently serving as Senior Manager, Research at Runway after leading digital human R&D at Adobe. Her work spans image segmentation, depth estimation, human sensing, character animation, and video synthesis, with multiple technology transfers into Photoshop and Character Animator. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and has a long history of internships and research roles at top labs including Adobe, Sony, and the University of Michigan, reflecting deep domain expertise from face recognition to dense prediction with deep convnets. Known for bridging academic rigor with product impact, she brings both algorithmic creativity and practical engineering judgment to ship complex perceptual systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at University of Science and Technology of ChinaBachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at China Agricultural UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of California, Merced
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
x86-647
openmp7
cpp7
opencl6
deep-learning6
oneapi6
tbb4
sycl4
deep-neural-networks4
neural-network3
pose2
pose-estimation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jimeiyang/objectContourDetector
Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
jimeiyang/deepRotator
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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