Yangqing Jia
Yangqing is a Research scientist director at Facebook, where he leads a team of talented researchers and engineers to build the general-purpose, large-scale AI platform for all Facebook's applications. The system serves as the backbone of Facebook AI products, such as ranking, computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, mobile AI, and AR.
Prior to Facebook, he was a research scientist at Google Brain, where he worked on computer vision, deep learning, and the TensorFlow framework.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley and bachelor and master degrees from Tsinghua University, China.
In recent years, Yangqing has been an active figure in AI software stack designs: He is the creator of Caffe, a BVLC-maintained, open-source deep learning framework.
Lin Yang
Dr. Lin Yang received his bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Tsinghua University and his PhD in Electronics Engineering at UC Berkeley. His areas of research include image processing, neural network, image recognition, and deep learning processor. Dr. Yang played a crucial role in inventing Cellular Neural Network (CNN) in 1988, and China's digital video broadcasting terrestrial (DVB-T2) standard in 2005. He received multiple patents and awards in both China and the U.S., including IEEE Best Paper Award in 1988, China National Invention Award in 2005, and China National Patent Award in 2015. Dr. Yang was also a tenured professor at Tsinghua, Fudan and other top universities in China.
