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John Yang

AdobeHead of Research and AI Technology

Yang is a computer-vision researcher and technology leader whose early work on sparse representations advanced image recognition and super-resolution. At ByteDance, he built its Bay Area AI Lab and later led teams behind TikTok and CapCut technologies and the Seedream image and Seedance video model families.

Career & education

Current role
Jun 2026-present
Head of Research and AI Technology
Previously
Head of Multimodal Foundation ModelJan 2024-Sep 2025
Head of Intelligent Creation TechnologyAug 2020-Jan 2024
Director, AI LabMay 2018-Aug 2020
Mar 2015-Apr 2018
Manager, Principal Scientist
Aug 2012-Mar 2015
Research Scientist
Education

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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MoveJohn Yang joins Adobe to lead research and AI technology

The former ByteDance executive will lead Adobe's research and AI technology organization after building products and generative-media models used at global scale.

August 12, 2026
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