Yale Song
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYale Song is a Senior Staff Research Scientist with 11 years of experience in computer vision and machine learning, currently at Google after research roles at Meta FAIR and Microsoft Research. He holds a PhD from MIT and has led applied research programs that turned video understanding algorithms into production features across Yahoo, Flickr and Tumblr. Yale’s work spans large-scale visual recognition, multimodal human behavior understanding, and practical systems like a C++/Python video understanding library and video summarization pipelines. He blends deep academic rigor with product-driven impact, having both founded groups and set hiring and research agendas in industry labs. Based in Redmond, he combines a strong publication record with hands-on engineering—an uncommon mix that enables rapid transition from cutting-edge research to deployed services.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS EECS, Bachelor of Science - BS EECS at Hanyang University
Github Skills (24)
pytorch10
caffe10
gif-animation10
summaries10
retrieval10
video-processing10
metric-learning10
apng10
machine-learning10
animated10
gif10
deep-learning10
semantic10
yahoo10
embedding10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yalesong/BGCS
Apr 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
yalesong/hCRF-light
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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