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Allen Yang

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Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Executive Director, FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Berkeley, California, United States

About

Allen Yang is Executive Director of the FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality at UC Berkeley, working in areas including computer vision, image processing, augmented reality, pattern recognition, robotics, and sensor networks. He has published more than 100 technical papers and holds more than 20 US patents or applications, including face recognition algorithms developed at UC Berkeley and real-time gesture recognition algorithms for ARM-based wearable platforms developed at Atheer. Yang earned his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has managed federally funded multi-university research projects.

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Experience

  1. FHL Vive Center for Enhanced RealityExecutive Directorcurrent2018 — presentUC Berkeley
  2. UC BerkeleyPrincipal Investigatorcurrent2006 — presentBerkeley, CA
  3. SkyDeck BerkeleyFaculty in Residencecurrent2017 — presentBerkeley, CA
  4. Center for Augmented Cognition, UC BerkeleyExecutive Directorcurrent2016 — presentBerkeley, CA
  5. Grafty Inc.Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2015 — presentSunnyvale, CA
  6. Berkeley Virtual Reality ClubAcademic Advisorcurrent2015 — presentUC Berkeley
  7. UC Berkeley Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering LeadershipChief Scientist2016 — 2018Berkeley
  8. Navy Advanced Exploitation of Mixed Reality (AEMR) COITechnology Assessment Working Group Lead2015 — 2016
  9. AtheerCTO2012 — 2014Mountain View, CA

Education

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPhD, ECE2001 — 2006
  2. University of California, BerkeleyNSF/Haas Business School Innovation Corps, Summer 20152015
  3. University of Science and Technology of ChinaBEng, Computer Science1996 — 2001

Skills & more

Image Processing41Machine Learning27Signal Processing27Computer Vision44Pattern Recognition30Image Segmentation12Optimization5Object Recognition8Algorithms27Simulations7Artificial Intelligence6Computer Science10
+8 moreParallel ComputingMathematical ModelingSensorsEmbedded SystemsMatlabLaTeXPythonC++

Languages Chinese · English

From Allen's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign392

Sundeep PeechuGeneral Partner at Felicis VenturesDeep NisharInvestment Team at General CatalystPrashant ShahPartner at Monta Vista CapitalNoorPartner at Clear VenturesPaul BragielCo-founder at Golden Gate VenturesGreg RudinBoard Partner at Menlo Ventures

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Also attended University of Science and Technology of China16

Prof. Shanhui FanInvestor at G Vision CapitalJeff LINPartner at iGlobe PartnersHui TianPartner at The Column GroupLei ZhangInvestor at Walnut Venture AssociatesWeikeng ChenResearch Partner at L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)Charlene LiDirector of Strategic Partnerships at TSVC

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Shared employers

Also worked at UC Berkeley291

Paul JennyBoard Chair at CincyTechAndrea van ElsasInvestor at Third Rock VenturesMichael PerezDeputy General Counsel at Mucker CapitalFreada Kapor KleinFounding Partner at Kapor CapitalUlili OnovakpuriManaging Partner at Kapor CapitalRoseanneCo-founder at Renegade Partners

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Also worked at UC Berkeley Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership1

Alex RiveroFounder at REV1

Also worked at Atheer5

Moe MirghahariInvestor at Green FlagBobby YazdaniFounder & Managing Partner at Cota CapitalRich EllingerAdvisor at Cota CapitalBabak PoushanchiManaging Partner at Cota CapitalSamir Adams GhoshManaging Partner at Frontures

Colleagues at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
EECS Professor (Strategy Council) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Alec Opdyke
Business Development Manager at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Aleksander Kuczek
Ambassador, EMEA at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Amy E. Herr, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering; Faculty Director, Bakar BioEnginuity Hub (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Anca Dragan
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Director, Interact Lab (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Armando Fox
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Balu Masti
Ambassador, India at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Ben Fong
Head of Business Development at UC Berkeley Skydeck