Summary
Yiming Xu is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience building production AI across computer vision, generative models, LLMs, and statistical modeling. At Adobe he co-founded AI innovations for Digital Media, is a named inventor on multiple patents, and earned the Adobe Unified Platform Impact Award for business-facing technical contributions. Previously he led data science work at Apple shipping the FaceID mask-unlock feature and conducted Bayesian deep learning research at Harvard and CMU, blending rigorous probabilistic foundations with product-driven engineering. Yiming’s interdisciplinary background in economics, sociology, and statistics gives him a rare ability to marry human-centered problem discovery with technically elegant solutions — he often starts by reframing the problem before picking tools.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Shanghai High School
Cross-registration EECS, Cross-registration EECS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Economics Economics, Bachelor of Economics Economics at Peking University
Summer Session Statistics, Summer Session Statistics at Yale University
Graduate Specialization Generative AI & Large Language Models, Graduate Specialization Generative AI & Large Language Models at Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Harvard University
English, Chinese