Yiren Jian
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiren Jian is a research-focused software engineer and Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with eight years of experience building multi-modal large language models. With a PhD in Computer Science from Dartmouth and earlier degrees in physics, Yiren blends deep theoretical grounding with practical ML system design, having driven multi-modal research at TikTok, ByteDance, and internships at Snap and NEC Labs. Their work spans efficient generative visual-language models and affective image captioning, highlighting strengths in bridging vision and language for production-scale models. Based in San Francisco, Yiren’s trajectory shows rapid transitions into high-impact roles across industry labs, suggesting both strong research productivity and an aptitude for shipping applied ML innovations. An often-overlooked asset is their physics background, which likely informs a principled approach to model inductive biases and data efficiency.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeMaster of Science (MS) Physics, Master of Science (MS) Physics at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (40)
multimodal-deep-learning9
vision-framework9
vision-and-language9
salesforce9
computational-biology9
visual-question-answering8
large-language-models7
clip7
zero-shot-classification7
computer-vision7
transfer-learning7
deep-learning6
multimodal6
pytorch6
foundation-models5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yiren-jian/CoT-RNA-Transfer
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
[Under Review] Knowledge from Large-Scale Protein Contact Prediction Models can be Transferred to the Data-Scarce RNA Contact Prediction Task
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 29 pushes in 2 months
computational-biologytransfer-learning
yiren-jian/LM-SupCon
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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