Yuanzhen Li

About Yuanzhen Li

I\'m a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, working on Gemini and new kinds of LLMs. Previously, I was a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) at Google Research, where I supported a talented team and several cross-org Computer Vision and Generative AI efforts, e.g, Muse (image generation model using parallel decoding),\"Imagen\" product offering in Google Cloud Vertex AI (featured at Google IO’23), DreamBooth (subject-conditioned diffusion models), DreamBooth3D, fine-grained product identification in videos, Generative Uncrop, etc. Prior to Google, I spent 10 years in the startup world. I made iPhone computational-photography apps, and one of them (TrueHDR) was popular in the 20••••12 era. I also founded a startup leveraging deep learning for image search; it was acquired by VSCO in 2015 and I then worked at VSCO as a Director of Engineering.Prior to that, I completed my PhD in 2009 at MIT with Prof. Edward H. Adelson. At MIT, I was a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Perceptual Science Laboratory. Before MIT, I got my Master’s from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and spent 2 years at Microsoft Research Asia.

Experience

1. Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Deepmind

   Google

   Jan 2024 — Present

   Working on Gemini and new kinds of LLMs.

Education

• Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  M.S., Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems

  2000 — 2003

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  PhD, Computer Vision

  2003 — 2009