Xiaodong Yang
Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA
California, United States
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Top SchoolXiaodong Yang is a Principal Research Scientist based in California with 12 years of experience advancing machine learning and AI research in both industry and startup environments. He has held multiple roles at NVIDIA—from Research Scientist to Senior Research Scientist—and led ML efforts as Head of Machine Learning at QCraft, demonstrating a blend of deep research expertise and product-driven leadership. His background includes research internships at Xerox PARC and AT&T Labs and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, reflecting strong academic foundations alongside practical deployment experience. Xiaodong excels at translating cutting-edge research into scalable solutions for real-world systems, particularly in high-performance and production contexts. Colleagues would describe him as a technical steward who bridges algorithmic innovation with engineering rigor and cross-functional collaboration. He often brings insights from both large corporate research labs and agile startup environments to accelerate applied ML progress.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., B.E. at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyPh.D., Ph.D. at City University of New York
Github Skills (28)
pytorch10
re-identification10
generative10
deep-learning9
lidar9
eval8
3d-object-detection8
backbone6
point-cloud6
mobilenet6
xception6
deeplab5
efficientnet5
planning5
perception5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NVlabs/DG-Net
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
Joint Discriminative and Generative Learning for Person Re-identification. CVPR'19 (Oral)
Contributions:50 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
pytorchpersondeep-learningjointgenerative
xiaodongyang/SNV
May 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 2 years 7 months
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