Yilin Wang
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYilin Wang is a Staff Software Engineer at YouTube/Google with over a decade of experience building scalable video processing, transcoding infrastructure, and objective video quality metrics. He combines production-grade engineering with active academic research—publishing in top venues like CVPR, ICCV, TIP, and ICIP—after earning a PhD in computer vision from UNC Chapel Hill. Since joining Google in 2014 he has focused on improving end-to-end video quality and compression at massive scale, bridging algorithmic advances and operational reliability. Based in Mountain View, he brings a researcher’s rigor to systems problems and a practical knack for turning cutting-edge perceptual models into production signals.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
google/uvq
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
valleyrain-org/www
Jul 2017 - May 2022
valleyrain.org website
Contributions:650 commits, 472 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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