Summary
Yifan Chen is a software engineer specializing in computer vision and deep learning with about eight years of experience applying research-grade algorithms to production problems. After building CV solutions for retail at Aibee—covering object tracking, re-identification, large-scale classification, knowledge distillation, and pruning—he interned on payment service throttling at Amazon and now contributes as a Member of Technical Staff at Oracle. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC Viterbi (class of 2021) and has research and study stints at UC Berkeley and ShanghaiTech, reflecting a strong academic-to-industry trajectory. Known for turning complex CV models into deployable systems, he blends algorithmic depth with practical software engineering in the San Jose Bay Area. An avid learner, he signals curiosity across institutions (USC, ShanghaiTech, UC Berkeley) and maintains an active GitHub presence focused on exploratory learning and engineering.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Southern California
Visiting Student, Visiting Student at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at ShanghaiTech University
Summer School, Summer School at The University of Chicago
Chinese, English