Yansong Gao

Research Scientist, Multimodal Machine Learning at TikTok

Yansong Gao is a Research Scientist specializing in Multimodal Machine Learning at TikTok, a position held since October 2023, focusing on MLLM and VLM pre-training and post-training. Prior to this, Yansong served as a Research Scientist at Tencent from December 2022 to September 2023 and completed a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, where studies were conducted from September 2019 to June 2023. Yansong also gained experience as a Computer Vision Research Intern at Baidu USA from May 2022 to September 2022 and worked as an Undergraduate Student Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from September 2015 to May 2017. Academic achievements include a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, earned between September 2013 and May 2017.

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TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and their mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The platform is a home for creative expression through videos that create a genuine, inspiring, and joyful experience. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. TikTok, a subsidiary of Bytedance, first launched in China in September 2016 and outside of China in May 2017. In August 2018, musical.ly merged with TikTok, unifying the two platforms.


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