Yichao Zhou
Research Scientist at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYichao Zhou is a research scientist at Apple with 14 years of experience building 3D vision and photorealistic video systems, currently working in Vladlen Koltun’s group on video generation and depth estimation. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a B.E. from Tsinghua, and has interned at leading labs including Adobe, Snapchat, ByteDance, and Microsoft. Yichao blends deep academic rigor with product-minded engineering—bringing research into deployable systems at scale. He also contributes to prominent open-source projects like Neovim, improving editor UX through nuanced UI and text-highlighting enhancements, reflecting a practical affinity for developer tools. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines expertise in 3D vision, machine learning, and full-stack implementation to push the frontier of realistic visual computing.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (11)
c1710
neovim10
lua10
uid10
c1110
front-end-development10
ui-design10
text-editor10
functional-testing9
testing9
api9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
neovim/neovim
Dec 2015 - Apr 2020
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 PRs, 104 comments, 5 issues in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yichao contributed to the Neovim project by implementing and modifying features related to text highlighting and UI elements within the editor. They added functionality for handling whitespace highlighting and integrated high-priority cursor line highlighting based on foreground color settings. The contributions also extended to functional testing of UI elements, and overall improving the user experience within the text editor environment.
usabilityapiluavimvim-plugin
zhou13/neovim
May 2016 - Mar 2023
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility. Consider helping sustain Neovim development!
Contributions:94 pushes, 12 branches in 6 years 11 months
vimagilitysustainfocusedneovim
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