Kwang Yi
Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKwang Yi is a founder and academic with 11 years of experience at the intersection of AI research and productization, currently leading Lisem AI (creator of TabMail, an AI email assistant) while serving as an Assistant Professor at UBC Computer Science. He brings a strong research pedigree—PhD in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University and a postdoc at EPFL—into building practical AI products and mentoring the next generation of engineers. His career blends academic rigor from roles at University of Victoria and EPFL with entrepreneurial drive to translate research into user-facing tools. Based in Vancouver, he navigates both scholarly publication pipelines and startup execution, making him fluent in prototyping, evaluation, and commercialization of ML systems. Less obvious: he has sustained a parallel trajectory in academia and industry, signaling an ability to move seamlessly between long-term research and rapid product iteration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University
English, Korean
Github Skills (120)
image-matching10
points10
matching10
detector10
theano10
sift10
assign10
lift9
feature-matching9
tilde9
computer-vision9
image-processing9
python9
opencv9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vcg-uvic/simple-python-scheduler
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Simple Python Scheduler
Contributions:4 releases, 114 commits, 2 PRs in 20 days
schedulerpythonpython3python-scheduler
vcg-uvic/lf-net-release
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
Code Release for LF-Net: Learning Local Features from Images
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
image-processinglocal-featurescomputer-vision
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