Yi Cui
Tech Lead Manager at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Cui is a Tech Lead Manager at Google with nine years of industry experience and a decade-plus research pedigree bridging medical imaging, cancer biomarker development, radar signal processing, and inverse problems. He has authored 50+ peer-reviewed publications with over 1,500 citations, demonstrating deep expertise in probabilistic models, sparse methods, and modern deep learning. Comfortable across C++, Python, Java, Scala, R and ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, he moves research into production at scale. Yi’s career blends academic rigor (PhD from Tsinghua, postdocs and faculty roles) with product-driven engineering at companies including ViewRay, Amobee, and Google, reflecting a rare ability to translate complex models into deployed systems. An underappreciated strength is his cross-domain fluency—applying algorithms developed for radar and inverse problems to biomedical imaging and genomics—enabling unconventional solutions to hard real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Jilin University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (25)
natural-language-generation7
mleap7
regression7
classification7
jupyter-notebook6
random-forest6
naive-bayes6
natural-language-processing6
python6
discord6
automated-machine-learning5
deep-learning5
scala5
machine-learning5
spark5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maycuiyan/deep-survival-model
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
maycuiyan/ship-detection
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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