Weixi Feng
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeixi Feng is a research scientist focused on generative media and compositional video/image generation, with eight years of experience spanning internships and applied research at NVIDIA, Adobe, Amazon, and now Google DeepMind. Currently completing a PhD in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, he blends deep academic training with hands-on industry work on text-to-video pretraining and controllable generation. His trajectory shows a consistent focus on multimodal generative models and scalable pretraining strategies, moving rapidly from internship projects to production-scale efforts at leading AI labs. Based in Mountain View, he brings practical applied-science experience from Amazon AGI and GenAIR research to cutting-edge GenMedia initiatives, and his international education background (UCLA, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Waterloo exchange) reflects a global, interdisciplinary perspective. Notably, he transitions fluidly between research and engineering roles, making him effective at translating novel algorithms into real-world model systems.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree Electronic and Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronic and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Los AngelesExchange Electrical and Computer Engineering, Exchange Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
speech-recognition9
nlp9
transformer8
deep-learning8
bert8
tensorflow8
transformers7
jax7
language-model7
seq2seq6
flax5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FENGRaymond/fusion-network
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
weixi-feng/ULN
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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