Liang (Eric) Yang
Senior Research Manager and Principal Researcher at Apple
About
I am a Senior Applied Research Manager and Principal Researcher at Apple, where I lead research initiatives in LLM, robotics, edge AI, and 3D computer vision. My work focuses on LLM post-training and optimization, advancing the state-of-the-art in autonomous systems and intelligent robotics.
I received dual Ph.D. degrees: one in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York, City University of New York under the supervision of Prof. Jizhong Xiao at the CCNY Robotics Lab, and another in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, where I conducted my research at the State Key Lab of Robotics.
Research Interests: Robotics, Edge AI, LLM Post-training and Optimization, 3D Computer Vision
Delivered Products
Delivered the Apple Intelligence On device and server models, Vision Pro 3D Scene Reconstruction, and Semantic understanding. Several proud projects including:
1. Apple Intelligence On-Device and Server Models (Model Optimization, and Fundation Model Framework
2. Apple Scene Intelligence Engine
A real-time 3D reconstruction pipeline with semantic understanding
3. Apple Room Plan
A first party use case built on the 3D reconstruction engine to build indoor CAD layout
5. Autonomous Wall-climbing Robot (CTO of Innovbot LLC)
The world first 3D defects detection enabled wall-climbing robot.