Wenyan Bi
Postdoctoral Associate
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolWenyan Bi is a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale specializing in computational models of human visual perception, with eight years of experience bridging probabilistic modeling, physics-based simulation, and perceptual experiments. She designs and implements generative physics engines and online Bayesian inference pipelines—often combining Julia/Gen particle filters with C++/Python simulation and Singularity containers—to probe how observers infer material properties like cloth behavior. Her skill set spans deep learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch), high-performance rendering and simulation (Nvidia FleX, Blender), VR/Unity development, and large-scale psychophysics via web crowdsourcing and fMRI. Wenyan’s work uniquely integrates graphics, psychophysics, and probabilistic programming to make inference about the physical world tractable and testable in humans. Based in New Haven, she pairs rigorous experimental design with production-ready engineering across HPC and cloud environments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognition and Neuroscience, 3.85/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognition and Neuroscience, 3.85/4.0 at American UniversityBachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, 88.8/100, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, 88.8/100 at Beijing Normal University
English, manderine chinese
Github Skills (1)
abstraction8
Github contributions (5)
BumbleBee0819/Real_time_video_abstraction
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 3 years 3 months
videoabstractionreal-time
BumbleBee0819/BatchExtractFramesFromVideo
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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