Ziyan Yang
Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZiyan Yang is a Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance Seed in San Jose with eight years of experience specializing in multimodal AI, computer vision, and video generation. He progressed from research internships at eBay, Adobe, and Netflix to impactful research roles at ByteDance, leading video generation efforts since 2024 and advancing to senior scientist in 2025. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from Rice and an MS from UVA, he blends deep academic rigor with applied industry research that ships at scale. His GitHub focus on CV & NLP highlights cross-modal expertise that bridges visual and language representations, enabling richer video synthesis and understanding. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates cutting-edge research into practical systems—often surfacing elegant solutions to noisy, real-world multimodal data.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Rice UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Bryn Mawr CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Jinling High SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (41)
contrastive-learning9
weakly-supervised-learning9
image-text8
face-detection8
re-identification8
human-pose-estimation8
representation-learning8
neural-machine-translation8
translation7
object-tracking7
machine-translation7
pytorch7
multi-object-tracking7
segmentation7
dialog7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
uvavision/visual-pivoting
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
uvavision/AMC-grounding
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 10 months
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