# Yang Song

> AI Practitioner | Multimodal Foundation Models

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yangsong1

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer / Ex-Engineering Manager @ Waymo
Jan 2018 – Present
Building multimodal foundation models for Waymo.

Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y6L6ZYsAAAAJ
Invited talk at ICCV 2019 Workshop on Autonomous Driving (http://wad.ai/)
Another example of my work,
https://blog.waymo.com/2020/04/using-automated-data-augmentation-to.html

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2008 – Jan 2018
Tech Lead Manager in Mobile Vision. I led the first launch of natural world vertical in Google Lens; and project lead for Production Recognition. I was organizer for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization competitions and workshops (FGVC4 and FGVC5).

Tech Lead for image content feature project. I use computer vision and machine learning techniques in Google Image Search.

Tech Lead for video classification projects. I developed state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning methods for YouTube and Google Image Search.

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Kosmix
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008

### Research Scientist @ Fujifilm
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007

### Postdoc Scholar @ Caltech
Jan 2003 – Jan 2003

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Catech vision lab
Jan 1997 – Jan 2002


## Education
### Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Caltech

### Tsinghua University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yang-song-bba4434
- Portfolio: http://www.vision.caltech.edu/yangs/
- Portfolio: https://ai.google/research/people/author38270/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12