Tianli Yu
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolTianli Yu is a Staff Software Engineer and former founder with 13 years of experience building and shipping AI-driven vision systems across startups, academia, and Fortune 500 companies. He currently leads engineering for Google Cloud Document AI, owning flagship OCR and form-parsing products and the cloud OCR engine in Vision API. Trained as a researcher in computer vision, graphics, and machine learning (PhD, UIUC; MS, Tsinghua), he blends theoretical depth with pragmatic system design to deploy models on constrained devices like phones and embedded robots. As CEO of Morpx he pushed efficient neural architectures into commercial educational robots, demonstrating a talent for turning compact, biologically inspired ideas into products. Known for optimizing for scarce resources, he thrives where algorithmic efficiency and production readiness meet. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs deep technical curiosity with leadership that scales research into widely used cloud services.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Signal and Information Processing, Master, Signal and Information Processing at Tsinghua UniversityPh.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor, Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor, Telecommunication Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (62)
palm-api10
langchain10
llm10
ace-editor10
google10
google-cloud10
generative-ai10
vertex-ai10
makecode10
code-editor10
gemini10
blockly10
bit10
editorjs10
editor9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tianli/matlab_offscreen
Aug 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
mu-opensource/MoonBot
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes in 5 months
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