Ryan Yuan
Research Director at Canva
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Yuan is a Research Director with 12 years of experience leading computer vision and scene understanding research, currently building a zero-to-one team at Canva focused on next-generation graphic design generation. He spent nearly eight years as a senior researcher at Microsoft, producing top-ranked semantic segmentation methods (OCNet/ISANet/OCRNet, SegFix) with publications at ICCV, ECCV, and IJCV and shipping features into Azure Form Recognizer and Microsoft Designer. His work spans applied research and product impact—from large-scale image search competitions and virtual try-on prototypes to deploying AIGC features—bridging state-of-the-art models with production systems. He holds advanced training in computer vision (PhD-level work at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) and earlier degrees from Peking University and Nanjing University. Based in Haidian, Beijing, he actively recruits research interns and full-time researchers and can be reached at ryanyuan@canva.com. A lesser-known thread of his profile is his side projects/gitrepos (gocode.cc | backmir), suggesting ongoing engineering curiosity beyond formal publications.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
博士 计算机视觉, 博士 计算机视觉 at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences学士 计算机科学, 学士 计算机科学 at Nanjing University硕士 计算机科学, 硕士 计算机科学 at Peking University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (41)
storage-engine10
key-value-store10
redis10
redis-protocol10
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redis-cluster10
nosql-database10
database10
key-value9
consensus9
tcp-server9
kubernetes9
etcd9
distributed-systems9
go9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sryanyuan/luago
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
sryanyuan/bmloginsvr
Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:148 pushes in 5 years
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