Yinxiao L
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYinxiao L is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building and shipping large-scale deep learning systems. Currently co-lead for Gemini Multimodal post-training (Nano Banana & Nano Banana Pro) at Google DeepMind, he has driven performance-aware GenAI efforts for ads and led projects with multimillion-dollar revenue impact. His work spans foundational image models (Imagen), award-winning research (CVPR nomination, ActivityNet first place) and production deployments dating back to leading Waymo’s largest perception network on cars since 2016. A Columbia PhD focused on deformable-object modeling, he combines rigorous academic training with a knack for turning cutting-edge research into robust production systems. Notably, he was a Google Tech Impact Award lead in 2023 and serves as area chair for major conferences, signaling influence across both engineering and research communities.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (27)
image10
machine-learning10
mlp10
image-enhancement10
denoising10
image-restoration10
google10
ai10
image-processing9
architecture9
computer-vision9
transformer-architecture8
trajectory-optimization8
tensorflow8
segmentation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Yinxiaoli/iros2015_folding
Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
Folding Deformable Objects using Predictive Simulation and Trajectory Optimization (IROS 2015)
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 2 months
simulationtrajectory-optimization
Yinxiaoli/code
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
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