Summary
Weicai Ye is a Senior Researcher based in Zurich with nine years of experience specializing in multimodal generative foundation models, world models, 3D vision, and embodied AI. Currently leading research efforts in the Visual Generation Group (Kling Team) at Kuaishou Technology, he focuses on bridging visual understanding and generative capabilities for real-world applications. His background includes a PhD-level research trajectory from Zhejiang University, a visiting researcher stint at ETH Zürich, and hands-on internships at Shanghai AI Lab, SenseTime, and Baidu that grounded his work in 3D reconstruction, semantic segmentation, and scalable video search systems. Known for combining deep theoretical insight with practical system-building, he often tackles problems that require integrating 3D scene understanding into multimodal generative pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher at ETH Zürich
PhD's degree Computer Science and Technology, PhD's degree Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English, Chinese