Yinda Zhang
Staff Research Scientist And Manager at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYinda Zhang is a Staff Research Scientist and manager at Google with over a decade of experience advancing immersive communication, perception, and 3D technologies. She leads teams building AR/VR perception core tech and specializes at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning, with work spanning 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, neural rendering, digital humans, and large generative models. Yinda’s recent focus on injecting human-centric and 3D knowledge into large generative models aims to produce more consistent, realistic, and immersive content—bridging lab research and product-grade systems. Trained at Princeton (PhD) with earlier degrees from NUS and Tsinghua, she combines deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering experience dating back to industry research internships and consultancy roles. An understated thread in her career is steady progression within Google from contractor to staff manager, reflecting both technical depth and people leadership in delivering perception innovations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical and Computational Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical and Computational Engineering at National University of SingaporeBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Princeton University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (20)
rgb10
depth10
scene9
computer-vision8
convolutional-neural-networks8
rendering8
deep-learning7
prediction7
physically-based-rendering6
machine-learning6
data-science5
pytorch4
n-dimensional4
cuda3
mesh2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yindaz/yindaz.github.io
Nov 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:30 pushes in 5 years 2 months
yindaz/PanoBasic
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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