Ming Yong
Founder at Angel Investor and Scout
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMing Yong is a founder and product leader with 10+ years of experience building ML-driven consumer and creator products and open-source infrastructure from Mountain View. He led Google MediaPipe from incubation to a top-10 global ML open-source project used across YouTube, Meet, Nest Cam and Cloud Vision, and previously drove product initiatives across Search and AdMob in China. As an operator-founder (Imagineapp) and serial entrepreneur (Socialwok, Voiceroute), he pairs hands-on engineering fluency in Golang, Python, C++ and Java with product strategy and community growth. An active angel investor and scout across the US and China, he backs startups in robotics, autonomous vehicles, gaming, education and crypto, often bringing product–market fit and go-to-market support. Notably, his work on MediaPipe quietly powers content fingerprinting and real-time perception systems at scale—an expertise he now applies to creator-focused AI tools. He combines academic training in applied physics and biomedical engineering with deep experience launching developer-facing platforms and commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Nanyang primaryChinese High SchoolM.S.E, Biomedical Engineering, M.S.E, Biomedical Engineering at University of MichiganTriple Science, Biology, Physics, Chemisry, Triple Science, Biology, Physics, Chemisry at Hwa Chong Junior CollegeIE SingaporeB.S, Applied Engineering Physics (Computational BioPhysics), B.S, Applied Engineering Physics (Computational BioPhysics) at Cornell University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (120)
mobile-development10
python10
pipeline-framework10
deep-learning10
stream-processing10
calculator10
video-processing10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
mediapipe10
graph-framework10
audio-processing10
tensorflow10
android10
perception10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mgyong/awesome-mediapipe
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
A curated list of awesome MediaPipe related code examples, libraries and software
Contributions:1 review, 21 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 8 months
mediapipe
mgyong/mediapipe-issue200
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
MediaPipe example of how to readout Detection proto for Object Detection example
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mediapipeobject-detection
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