Yinfei Yang
Co-Founder Chief Multimodal Architect at Elorian AI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYinfei Yang is a machine learning and multimodal systems leader with a decade of experience building production-grade vision and language models across industry leaders and startups. As Co-Founder and Chief Multimodal Architect at Elorian AI, he is focused on next-generation intelligence that bridges computer vision and NLP, drawing on research leadership roles at Apple and Google. His work spans high-impact projects like ALIGN, MURAL, multimodal LLM capabilities (Ferret), and AFM multimodel research, demonstrating a rare blend of foundational research and product delivery. Prior roles at Redfin and Amazon grounded his expertise in applied computer vision for real-world products, and he holds advanced graduate training in computer vision, robotics, and NLP from the University of Pennsylvania. Based in Mountain View, he combines deep research authorship with hands-on engineering and entrepreneurship, often translating academic advances into scalable systems. A not-obvious strength is his consistent track record of moving from core-model innovations to usable multimodal products across both hyperscalers and startups.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (Ph.D quite), Computer Vision, Robotics, NLP, Master's degree (Ph.D quite), Computer Vision, Robotics, NLP at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
clinical-trials5
trial5
lda4
java3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yinfeiy/MG-LDA
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
javagrainlda
yinfeiy/vimrc
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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