Shiqi Yang
Director General Manager at SB Intuitions
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShiqi Yang is a research-driven AI leader with a Ph.D. in computer vision and over a decade of experience advancing multimodal generative models. Currently Director/General Manager of the Multimodal AI Department at SB Intuitions (with a concurrent SoftBank role), she leads Vision and Speech/Audio teams and heads the Creative Vision group focused on visual generation pretraining and post-training. Her trajectory spans academia and industry—from a PhD at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and predoctoral work on domain-adaptive vision models to research roles at Sony and Kyoto University—bridging deep research with product-focused R&D. An area chair for top conferences (ICML/NeurIPS), she combines scientific rigor with operational leadership to shepherd large industrial projects. She has hands-on experience applying pretrained models like CLIP and Stable Diffusion to open-vocabulary tasks, signaling a practical bent toward making state-of-the-art generative tech production-ready. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, she blends global research collaborations with strategic team-building across multimodal AI.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate Degree, Computer Vision and Deep Learning, Doctorate Degree, Computer Vision and Deep Learning at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMaster's degree, Control Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Control Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyBachelor's degree, Automation, Bachelor's degree, Automation at 武汉科技大学
English, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
ranking10
react9
science9
computer-science9
efficientnet6
backbone5
resnet5
densenet5
re-identification5
cifar1005
classification5
caffe4
pytorch4
imagenet4
semantic-segmentation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Albert0147/BAIT_SFUDA
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 9 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
Albert0147/G-SFDA
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:53 commits, 33 pushes, 18 comments in 9 months
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