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YU Jiahui (余家辉)

Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs (since 2025)

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Meta MSL researcher (2025) · OpenAI Perception team lead
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Previously
Google DeepMindOpenAI
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Meta MSL
USTC Special Class for Gifted Young, UIUC PhD
Internships across Microsoft, Megvii, Adobe, Snap, Baidu, Nvidia, Google DeepMind (co-led Gemini multimodal)
Ex-OpenAI Head of Research, Perception (GPT-4.1, 4o-imagegen)
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YU Jiahui (余家辉) joined Meta Superintelligence Labs in 2025. He earned his B.S. from USTC Special Class for the Gifted Young and Ph.D. from UIUC.

He worked at Baidu, NVIDIA, and Google DeepMind (Gemini multimodal co-lead) before joining OpenAI in Oct 2023, where he led the Perception team and contributed to o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4o. At Meta, he leads multimedia content generation R&D.

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Meta MSL researcher (2025)OpenAI Perception team leadGemini multimodal co-lead (DeepMind)
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UIUC
Ph.D.
USTC (Special Class for the Gifted Young)
B.S.
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