Yizhi Wang
Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYizhi Wang is a Senior Research Scientist based in San Jose with a decade of experience at the intersection of computer graphics and generative AI, currently advancing state-of-the-art video generation at ByteDance/TikTok. He led development of highly impactful video generative effects and VideoGen techniques—spanning editing, customized generation, and motion-controlled synthesis—that have reached tens of millions of posts and real-world product adoption. His path from a PhD in Computer Graphics at Peking University through a postdoc at Simon Fraser and industry internships at Tencent gives him deep academic rigor plus product-driven engineering instincts. Comfortable moving models from research prototypes into production-grade creative features, he also maintains an active GitHub presence and recently migrated to a new account, signaling ongoing open-source engagement.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Technology at Peking University
Github Skills (6)
scene-text7
vector-graphics6
vector5
computer-vision5
ocr5
deep-learning3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Actasidiot/CGRN
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 1 push in 2 days
Actasidiot/actasidiot.github.io
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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