Shan Yang is a Staff Applied Scientist with eight years of experience building production-grade ML systems across speech synthesis, multimodal video understanding, and 3D reconstruction. After a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill, Shan drove research-to-product work at Google and Amazon before joining Adobe Foundry, bridging cutting-edge research with scalable engineering. His background spans inverse problems in graphics to monocular video 3D reconstruction and recent focus on speech synthesis, reflecting a rare combo of geometric vision and audio modeling expertise. Based in Mountain View, he is comfortable moving systems from research prototypes into robust, deployable services and often brings insights from academic research to solve practical product challenges.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Shan Yang - Staff Applied Scientist at Adobe Foundry