Summary
Tianyu Yang is a research scientist with 11 years of experience focused on multimodal machine learning, currently working at Samsung Research America and affiliated with the University of Notre Dame. His work spans language, vision, and audio modalities to enable real-world interaction, with recent projects including multimodal retrieval systems and retrieval-augmented generation at Bosch Research. A Columbia MS graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he has blended academic research and applied development through roles at Columbia, Google Summer of Code, and IDEA. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges rigorous research with practical system-building, often exploring cross-modal grounding that connects perception to action in physical environments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Notre Dame
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Columbia University