Yichun Shi
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYichun Shi is a Staff Research Scientist based in Sunnyvale with eight years of research experience focused on visual generative models for controllable creation of images, video, and 3D. At ByteDance he progressed from Research Scientist to Staff, leading work on instructional image editing (SeedEdit, Seedream), video generation, and multi-view 3D systems (MVDream, ImageDream). His work bridges academic rigor—reflected in a PhD from Michigan State and an active Google Scholar profile—with production-oriented multi-modal model development deployed in product contexts. Yichun has interned at NEC Labs and Visa, bringing industry perspective to research problems and shipping applied synthesis features. He is active on GitHub and maintains a personal research homepage that surfaces his publications and code, signaling a commitment to reproducibility and open research. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who moves ideas from novel algorithms to usable, controllable content-creation tools.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanghai High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science (IEEE Pilot Class), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (IEEE Pilot Class) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (14)
uncertainty10
biometrics10
multi-gpu10
face-recognition10
face-generation9
tensorflow9
style-transfer9
3d7
stylegan7
deep-learning7
deep-neural-networks5
stable-diffusion4
pytorch3
testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
seasonSH/seasonSH.github.io
Apr 2019 - Mar 2026
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
SemanticStyleGAN/SemanticStyleGAN.github.io
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 6 months
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