Yanbei Chen
Staff Research Scientist at Meta
United States
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Top SchoolYanbei Chen is a staff research scientist with a decade of experience advancing deep learning and computer vision, currently at Meta after leading multimodal foundation-model efforts at Amazon. He specializes in semi-supervised, unsupervised, and cross-domain visual learning and has driven production-facing multimodal systems—contributing to the Amazon Nova family and Rekognition APIs—bridging research and engineering at scale. Yanbei’s work spans scalable multimodal training recipes, efficient architectures, and multimodal embeddings for unified semantic search across text, images, video, and audio. Trained with a PhD in computer vision and a background across top research labs in Europe and industry, he combines rigorous academic methods with product-driven deployment. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of translating synthetic-caption and hyperbolic-learning ideas into open-world detection and large-scale multimodal capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Vision (Systems Control and Robotics), Master's degree Computer Vision (Systems Control and Robotics) at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyEngineering Summer Program - Robotics, Engineering Summer Program - Robotics at Tohoku UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision Deep Learning Machine Learnin, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision Deep Learning Machine Learnin at Queen Mary University of LondonBachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (12)
re-identification10
vision-and-language10
contrastive-learning10
retrieval9
semi-supervised-learning9
unsupervised-learning9
tensorflow7
image-search7
deep-learning7
audio6
pytorch6
algorithms3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yanbeic/yanbeic.github.io
Jul 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
yanbeic/VAL
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Tensorflow Implementation on Paper [CVPR2020]Image Search with Text Feedback by Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
tensorflowimage-searchvision-and-languageretrieval
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