Summary
Yiming Xu is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience building production AI across computer vision, generative models, LLMs, and statistical modeling. At Adobe he co-founded AI innovations for Digital Media, is a named inventor on multiple patents, and earned the Adobe Unified Platform Impact Award for business-facing technical contributions. Previously he led data science work at Apple shipping the FaceID mask-unlock feature and conducted Bayesian deep learning research at Harvard and CMU, blending rigorous probabilistic foundations with product-driven engineering. Yiming’s interdisciplinary background in economics, sociology, and statistics gives him a rare ability to marry human-centered problem discovery with technically elegant solutions — he often starts by reframing the problem before picking tools.
12 years of coding experience