Yang Wang
CTO at Element, Inc.
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Wang is a CTO and seasoned computer vision and deep learning researcher with 15+ years of R&D experience translating medical and mobile AI research into production software. Based in New Jersey, he has led teams at Element to build a mobile AI platform for digital identity and financial inclusion while steadily owning hands-on R&D in on-device deep learning and computer vision since 2013. His earlier work includes learning-based medical image analysis at Siemens and postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon on face tracking and expression recognition, giving him rare domain depth across academia and industry. Yang combines product-focused leadership with technical rigor, shipping deployable algorithms for constrained devices and regulated domains. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who bridges research, engineering, and partnerships to bring AI from prototype to real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
master computer science, master computer science at Tsinghua Universitypostdoctoral Robotics Institute, postdoctoral Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (6)
recurrent10
machine-learning7
deep-learning6
neural-network5
hyper1
optimization1
Github contributions (5)
ywelement/dpnn
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
deep-learningextensions
ywelement/rnn
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
deep-learningmachine-learningrecurrent-neural-networkneural-networkrecurrent
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