Yiqin Zhao
Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiqin Zhao is an Assistant Professor and applied AI researcher with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and industry in computer vision, 3D graphics, and machine learning. Currently at Rochester Institute of Technology after a PhD and research roles at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she has built efficient deep learning models for indoor AR lighting estimation and scalable point-cloud processing pipelines. Her industry stints—Google, Adobe, Kuaishou, and Baidu—focused on 3D content generation and graphics-AI, reflecting a knack for turning research into practical tools and products. She also has a background in computational creativity and speech emotion recognition, having developed web platforms and novel DNNs during undergraduate research collaborations. Based in Worcester, MA, she combines rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering across large datasets and production-oriented prototypes. An observant detail: her profile uses the alternative romanization "Yi-Chin," hinting at a practice of adapting her professional identity across contexts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Tianjin Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chinese, English
Github Skills (97)
python10
diffusion-models10
image-generation10
cpp10
robotics10
seo10
multimodal10
audio10
meta-tags10
computer-vision10
flux10
favicon10
pytorch10
visualization10
stable-diffusion10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
YiqinZhao/yiqinzhao.me
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:263 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 6 months
coden-hk/358map
May 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
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