Yu Wang
Software Engineer at Roblox
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Wang is a software engineer with nine years of experience who currently builds friend recommendation and user search systems at Roblox. Trained in computer engineering at the University of Toronto and holding an MEng from UC Berkeley, Yu blends rigorous academic research in NLP, behavior modeling, and perception with production-facing ML and software engineering. Past projects range from LiDAR-based traffic light detection and lane segmentation to real-time gesture recognition on consumer devices, reflecting a strong cross-domain applied-ML skillset. Based in California, he brings both research depth—semi-supervised transfer learning and human behavior prediction—and hands-on product delivery at scale. Notably, his trajectory bridges elite academic labs and consumer-scale systems, making him effective at turning novel models into deployed features.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 3.89/4.00, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 3.89/4.00 at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Applied Science - BASc (with High Honours), Computer Engineering, 3.89/4.00, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc (with High Honours), Computer Engineering, 3.89/4.00 at University of Toronto
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (7)
segmentation2
semantic2
deep-learning2
semantic-segmentation2
computer-vision2
pytorch1
latex1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rwang97/skyline-image-generation
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
rwang97/landmark-retrieval
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:42 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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