Ying Zheng
Ying Zheng is a computer scientist and the Co-founder and President of AiFi, a company that she co-founded in 2016 with Steve Gu, based in Santa Clara, California.[1] She is known for her pioneering work in computer vision, sensor fusion and synthetic data for automated retail applications as well as for plant root structures.[1][2][3]
Education[edit]
Zheng received her PhD in 2011 from Duke University under advisor Herbert Edelsbrunner.[4] Her research paper focused on Detailed reconstruction of 3D plant root shape published by IEEE was presented in 2011 at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Barcelona, Spain, and has been cited in several other publications since then, including Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering in 2019 and Computational Geometry in 2020.[2][5][6][7]
Career[edit]
AiFi, Inc.[edit]
In January 2016, Zheng co-founded AiFi with Steve Gu and became its CTO.[8] By 2018, AiFi's team consisted of of a reported 25 people included other computer science and deep learning engineers.[8] In 2018 Zheng is quoted as saying that she and AiFi use synthetic data to create models or simulations of retail stores, and then train their deep learning models to label and recognize images.[3] In 2020, Zheng stated in an interview with THE AI FUTURE SHOW that AiFi had opened ten commercial stores ranging in size from a 150 sq. ft. container store to a 4000 sq. ft. supermarket.[9]
Google[edit]
Before co-founding AiFi, Zheng worked at Google as a software engineer.[1][8] Zheng has patents with Google filed in 2013 and 2014 in sensor fusion and identifying user reactions to media.[10][11]
Honors and Awards[edit]
Zheng was named a 2019 Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, citing her influence in creating a more efficient exit process for retail than she herself experienced as a working mother waiting in line to buy food and supplies for her baby.[1]
Zheng and AiFi were also the winners of the 2018 Visa Everywhere Initiative for her artificial intelligence technology that allows shoppers in brick and mortar stores to pay without going through a cashier or a checkout.[12] Zheng was later invited by Visa to participate in the Visa Everywhere Initiative: Women’s Global Edition's campaign for female entrepreneurs, where she said that as a female engineer, she had been the only woman on her team of 100.[13][14]
In 2004 Zheng placed first in the ACM ICPC Dhaka Site's annual, global university programming competition representing Fudan University in China.[15][16] She went on to participate in the International College Student Programming Competition World Finals in Prague, Czech Republic.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Green, Alisha (May 22, 2019). "A woman of influence: Ying Zheng found inspiration for her company in everyday errands". Silicon Valley Business Journal. American City Business Journals. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zheng, Ying & Gu, Steve & Edelsbrunner, Herbert & Tomasi, Carlo & Benfey, Philip (November 1, 2011). "Detailed reconstruction of 3D plant root shape. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision". Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision: 2026–2033. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2011.6126475. Retrieved 28 July 2020. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nisselson, Evan (May 11, 2018). "Deep learning with synthetic data will democratize the tech industry". TechCrunch. Verizon Media. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ↑ "Graduation: Degrees Conferred for 2010-11". Duke Computer Science. Duke University Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ↑ Ying Zheng; Gu, Steve; Edelsbrunner, Herbert; Tomasi, Carlo; Benfey, Philip (2011). Detailed reconstruction of 3D plant root shape. IEEE Explore. pp. 2026–2033. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2011.6126475. ISBN 978-1-4577-1102-2. Retrieved 3 August 2020. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Jun-xiao Xue, Chen-yang Sun, Jun-jin Cheng, Ming-liang Xu, Ya-fei Li, and Shui Yu (October 18, 2019). "Wheat ear growth modeling based on a polygon". Frontiers Inf Technol Electronic Eng. 20 (9): 1175–1184. doi:10.1631/FITEE.1800702. Retrieved 3 August 2020. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Robin Lynne Belton, Brittany Terese Fasy, Rostik Mertz, Samuel Micka, David L. Millman, Daniel Salinas, Anna Schenfisch, Jordan Schupbach, Lucia Williams (October 2020). "Reconstructing embedded graphs from persistence diagrams". Computational Geometry. Elsevier. 90: 101658. doi:10.1016/j.comgeo.2020.101658. Retrieved 3 August 2020. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Perez, Sarah (February 27, 2018). "AiFi emerges from stealth with its own take on cashier-free retail, similar to Amazon Go". TechCrunch. Verizon Media. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ↑ Pardoe, Andy. "THE AI FUTURE SHOW Live with Ying Zheng (S3 E3) - Conversations on the Retail Experience". Professor Andy Pardoe. YouTube. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
- ↑ "Systems and methods for associating media content with viewer expressions". Google Patents. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ↑ "Navigation using sensor fusion". Google Patents. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ↑ "Visa's Everywhere Initiative Announces U.S. Winners". VISA. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ↑ "Global Testimonials - Visa Everywhere Initiative: Women's Global Edition". YouTube. VISA. March 29, 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ↑ Staff Reporter (March 8, 2019). "Visa launches women's global edition of its Visa Everywhere Initiative". Ventureburn. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "第28届ACM/ICPC国际大学生程序设计竞赛世界决赛 (捷克，布拉格，2004年03月28日—2004年04月01日)". bbs.pku. Peking University Weiming BBS. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ↑ "View Standings". The 2004 ACM Asia Programming Contest - Dhaka. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06.
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