About me

Dr. Wang is a Senior Director of Megvii, leading a research team that focuses on transforming mobile user experience with AI. He received his BE and MS from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and his PhD from the University of Washington at Seattle. He was a Principal Scientist at Adobe Research before joining Megvii in 2017. He has published more than 100 research articles in top-tier academic journals and conferences in the areas of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning and HCI, and holds more than 70 international patents. He is an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Dr. Wang also has a respectable record of transferring advanced technologies into consumer products. His early work in grad school on Image Matting has been transferred into a commercial product called Silhouette that won 2019 Oscar technical award. At Adobe he has developed a dozen of release-defining features for Photoshop and After Effects such as Refine Edge, Shake Reduction, Warp Stabilizer and RotoBrush, etc.