Yichen Wei
Researcher at Microsoft
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYichen Wei is a researcher with 11 years of professional experience and a decade-long research track record in computer vision and machine learning, specializing in object detection, pose estimation, tracking, and structure-from-motion. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from HKUST and has published prolifically in top venues including ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, PAMI, IJCV, and SIGGRAPH. At Microsoft since 2006, he has translated six years of research into shipped products across Xbox/Kinect, Bing image search, Office, and Windows, demonstrating strong end-to-end impact from algorithms to deployed systems. Proficient in C++ and Matlab with 10+ years of hands-on coding, he blends theoretical depth with practical engineering. Based in Haidian District, Beijing, he brings a rare combination of sustained academic excellence and production-focused delivery in large-scale consumer and enterprise systems. An intriguing facet of his profile is consistent cross-domain influence—publishing fundamental vision work while embedding it into commercial Microsoft products.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Peking UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
weyichen/Yorktown
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
weyichen/poidb-gmaps
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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