Where does Allen Yang work?

Allen Yang is Faculty in Residence at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund.

Where did Allen Yang go to school?

Allen Yang studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PhD, ECE); University of California, Berkeley (NSF/Haas Business School Innovation Corps, Summer 2015); University of Science and Technology of China (BEng, Computer Science).

Allen Yang

Investor

Faculty in Residence at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund · Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Executive Director, FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality 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.

Experience

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

Skills & more

Image Processing41Machine Learning27Signal Processing27Computer Vision44Pattern Recognition30Image Segmentation12Optimization5Object Recognition8Algorithms27Simulations7Artificial Intelligence6Computer Science10

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Parallel ComputingMathematical ModelingSensorsEmbedded SystemsMatlabLaTeXPythonC++

Languages Chinese · English

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Colleagues at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Areg Alimian

Partner at SmartGateVC

Balu Masti

Ambassador, India at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Bhavika Patel

Program Coordinator at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Brian Bordley

Partner at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Bridgette L. Smith

CEO @ Founder Pitch Week; SkyDeck DEI Committee Chair at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Caroline Winnett

Angel at Berkeley Skydeck Fund

Chon Tang

Managing Partner at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Clifford Tong

Angel at Berkeley Angel Network

Frequently asked questions

Who is Allen Yang?: 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.
Where does Allen Yang work?: Allen Yang is Faculty in Residence at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund.
Where did Allen Yang go to school?: Allen Yang studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PhD, ECE); University of California, Berkeley (NSF/Haas Business School Innovation Corps, Summer 2015); University of Science and Technology of China (BEng, Computer Science).

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Shared employers

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