Summary
Yizeng Sun is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building high-performance C++ systems for real-time 3D perception and ML at Apple, Magic Leap, and early-stage hardware startup Lensense. He combines a strong math and EE graduate background with hands-on expertise in SLAM, visual-inertial odometry, and dense 3D reconstruction—having led development of a commercial intraoral 3D scanner. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has roots in information theory and LDPC coding from UCLA research and a dual-degree foundation from Peking University. Notably, his career blends product-facing engineering at startups with large-scale ML engineering at Apple, evidencing both entrepreneurial initiative and production reliability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics at Peking University
University of California, Los Angeles