Yongqi Chen
Founding Member at Stealth Startup
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYongqi Chen is a founding member and early-stage builder based in California with a strong research-to-product trajectory in robotics and efficient foundation-model systems. With an MS in Robotics from the University of Michigan and a BE from Zhejiang University, he spent recent roles accelerating video generation at UCSD (contributing to the FastVideo framework) and optimizing training/inference for LLMs as a graduate research assistant. In just two years of professional experience he has bridged academic research and startup execution, moving from research prototypes to practical tooling for model efficiency. He combines deep academic training with hands-on open-source impact and a founder’s appetite for shipping infrastructure that scales.
2 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Chengdu NO.7 High School 成都市第七中学Master of Science - MS Robotics, Master of Science - MS Robotics at University of MichiganBachelor of Engineering - BE Robotics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Robotics at Zhejiang UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BrianChen1129/BrianChen1129.github.io
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
fast-video/fast-video.github.io
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
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