Yinfei Yang

Yinfei Yang is a highly skilled research scientist currently employed at Apple since January 2022, following a notable tenure at Google from January 2017 to January 2022, where contributions included image-text co-embedding projects (ALIGN, MURAL) and advancements in text-to-image generation. Yinfei's earlier experience at Google also encompassed roles as a staff software engineer and senior software engineer, focusing on language-agnostic BERT sentence embeddings and the Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder. Prior experience includes data science engineering at Redfin, software development at Amazon with a focus on computer vision, and an internship as a campus ambassador at Sun Microsystems. Educational qualifications include a Master's degree in Computer Science from Saint Joseph's University and further studies in Computer Vision, Robotics, and NLP at the University of Pennsylvania.