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John Yang

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Head of Research and AI Technology at Adobe

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.

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Background

Current role
Head of Research and AI Technology Jun 2026-present
Previously
Jan 2024-Sep 2025Head of Multimodal Foundation Model,
Aug 2020-Jan 2024Head of Intelligent Creation Technology,
May 2018-Aug 2020Director, AI Lab,
Mar 2015-Apr 2018Manager, Principal Scientist,
Aug 2012-Mar 2015Research Scientist,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 12, 2026

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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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