Yichun Shi
Staff Research Scientist at ByteDance
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYichun Shi is a Staff Research Scientist based in Sunnyvale with eight years of research experience focused on visual generative models for controllable creation of images, video, and 3D. At ByteDance he progressed from Research Scientist to Staff, leading work on instructional image editing (SeedEdit, Seedream), video generation, and multi-view 3D systems (MVDream, ImageDream). His work bridges academic rigor—reflected in a PhD from Michigan State and an active Google Scholar profile—with production-oriented multi-modal model development deployed in product contexts. Yichun has interned at NEC Labs and Visa, bringing industry perspective to research problems and shipping applied synthesis features. He is active on GitHub and maintains a personal research homepage that surfaces his publications and code, signaling a commitment to reproducibility and open research. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who moves ideas from novel algorithms to usable, controllable content-creation tools.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanghai High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science (IEEE Pilot Class), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (IEEE Pilot Class) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (11)
face-generation9
face9
lifting8
face-recognition7
face-detection7
stylegan7
facenet6
computer-vision4
deep-learning3
stable-diffusion3
pytorch3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
seasonSH/seasonSH.github.io
Apr 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
SemanticStyleGAN/SemanticStyleGAN.github.io
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 6 months
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