As the Head of AR Effects at TikTok, I lead a top-notch engineering team with ~400 engineers for AR and effects. With a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and multiple patents and publications in computer vision, GPU, and multimedia, I have a strong background and expertise in AI/AR technologies and applications.
My team’s mission is to empower the interactive and creative design space for video creation and editing with state-of-the-art AI technology. My team is responsible for building a world-leading effect platform that transforms AI/AR technologies into innovative product features for content creation and consumption, as well as camera applications, within TikTok and other ByteDance products. I am also hiring and managing software engineers and interactive engineers in various domains, such as AR platform, graphics, game, desktop, mobile, algorithm, and product.