Yanjin Li
CEO And Co-Founder at The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolYanjin Li is a data scientist-turned-founder with 10 years of experience building ML-driven products and analytics across media, e-commerce, and ad-tech. As CEO and Co-Founder of TheSEA, she now applies generative AI to automate advertising visual production while completing a Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo on model change detection and graph-based data augmentation (ICDM’23). Her background includes leading data science teams at SmartNews and designing large-scale algorithms for LINE’s ad platform, combining research rigor with product-focused deployment. Trained in statistics (Columbia) and mathematics (Washington), she bridges deep learning research and practical engineering—often translating complex models into stakeholder-facing solutions. An unexpected thread in her career is a prior international modeling stint, which honed her aesthetic sensibility and likely informs her current work on visual ad automation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at University of WashingtonUniversity of TokyoMaster's degree, Statistics, Master's degree, Statistics at Columbia University in the City of New York
Japanese, English, Chinese, Italian
Github Skills (21)
anonymous6
open-science4
science3
proxy2
proxy-server2
python2
machine-learning1
google-cloud-dataflow1
trend1
histogram1
marketing1
parallel1
dataflow1
computation1
mod-manager1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yl3394/codility-code-challenges
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:7 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
codility
TZstatsADS/Fall2016-proj5-grp13
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 3 days
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