Summary
Yuhui Chen is a Staff Software Engineer at Google Research/Core ML with over a decade of experience building production-grade ML systems and models across computer vision and NLP. He led MediaPipe’s on-device generative AI efforts, delivering world-record performance running Stable Diffusion and shipping PaLM2 on phones, tablets, and Chromebooks, and is a maintainer of the TensorFlow Object Detection API. His work spans research and product: from pose estimator MoveNet (widely downloaded and embedded in products) to clinical-note generation tools and large-scale model evaluation/monitoring pipelines used across 10+ products. Trained as a PhD in electrical engineering, he blends deep academic expertise in multimodal image fusion with practical systems engineering that scales to millions of images and real users. Based in Cupertino, he’s also an avid snowboarder, pianist/drummer, and frequent badminton player—small personal pursuits that mirror his iterative, performance-driven approach to ML engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.97, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.97 at National Taiwan University
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering: Systems, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering: Systems, 4.0 at University of Michigan
Chinese, English