Yangqing Jia
Author of Caffe
The first framework deep learning had
Rating
85Impact score
Domains
ML frameworksModel interchangeInference
Scouting report
Wrote Caffe as a Berkeley PhD student and released it, giving computer vision its first widely usable deep learning framework at exactly the moment the field needed one. Later built Caffe2 at Facebook, co-created ONNX so models could move between frameworks, and led large-scale AI infrastructure at Alibaba before founding Lepton AI.
Curator’s note
Before PyTorch and TensorFlow there was one option, and he wrote it.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Yangqing Jia by Yangqing Jia, supplied by the subject.
Sources
- 01Caffe: Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding (2014) arxiv.org
- 02ONNX onnx.ai