Yan Zhang
Research Engineer at Epic Games
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Zhang is a research engineer with a decade of experience translating cutting-edge academic research into applied machine learning and computer vision systems. He has held research roles at Max Planck and ETH Zürich, completed a PhD-level trajectory at Ulm University, and moved into industry positions at Meshcapade and Epic Games where he focuses on realistic human modeling and interaction. His work spans generative modeling, human motion and body analysis, biophotonics-based image segmentation, and scientific computing—bringing strong mathematical rigor from a mechatronics and control systems background. Yan is comfortable moving between foundational research and product-facing engineering, having shifted from postdoc projects to machine learning science in production contexts. Based in Germany, he maintains a personal repo and website that document his experiments and reproducible research, reflecting a commitment to open, verifiable methods. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends deep technical breadth with an eye for embodied, perceptual problems that bridge lab and industry.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Control system engineering, MSc, Control system engineering at The University of ManchesterBachelor, Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics), Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics) at Southwest Jiaotong UniversityDoctorate Degree, Computer Science, Doctorate Degree, Computer Science at Ulm UniversityOther, Mathematics and Computer Science, Other, Mathematics and Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (61)
depth-estimation10
azure-kinect10
python10
machine-learning10
siggraph10
deep-learning10
gpu10
kinect10
openvr9
depth-camera9
neural-rendering9
numpy9
acceleration9
autograd9
sdk9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yz-cnsdqz/TemporalActionParsing-FineGrained
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
yz-cnsdqz/yz-cnsdqz.github.io-v-1
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:139 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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