photograph courtesy of Evan Sharp
Yushi Jing ( Kevin Jing )I received B.S, M.S., and Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech advised by Prof. Rehg. Joining Google Research as an intern in 2004, then a full-time SWE in 2006, I worked with M. Covell, H. Rowley, J. Wang, C. Rosenberg and S. Baluja on building visual-search systems, and briefly collaborated with Prof. Aizawa on sketch-based interfaces. In 2012-3, one of my interns M. Wang successfully started Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), while another intern D. Tsai co-founded VisualGraph with me (acquired by Pinterest). After the acquisition, we formed visual-discovery team working with Prof. Darrel at Berkeley and venture-capitalist S. Tavel to launch Pinterest Flashlight and related Pins with 15 engineers, generated +40% of the engagement share. Founding team (photo) members Dmitry, Andrew, David, Jia-jing went on to manage related Pins, Pinterest Lens, ML-infra, and ads-ranking; Jeff later joined DeepMind. I returned to Google as a SWE in '17 working on retail (Cloud) & product-listing-ads (Ads) related projects./Patents /Publications |