Researcher · Founder · Executive
Yangqing Jia
Intent LabCo-founder and CEO
Jia created Caffe, an early widely used deep learning framework.[1] He co-led PyTorch 1.0 and co-created ONNX, a standard for moving trained models between software tools.[2] He also co-created Inception, which set a new benchmark for image recognition in 2014[3], and co-founded Lepton AI, a cloud platform[4] later acquired by NVIDIA.
Career & education
Intent Lab2026-present
NVIDIA
Lepton AI
Alibaba
Tsinghua University
UC BerkeleyWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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Selected contributions
Going Deeper with Convolutions
With Christian Szegedy, Wei Liu, Pierre Sermanet, Scott Reed, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Vincent Vanhoucke and others ·GoogLeNet recognizes images with parallel filters operating at different scales.
References
- Berkeley AI Research — Caffecaffe.berkeleyvision.org
Credits Jia as the creator and documents early adoption.
- Yangqing Jia — Projects and experiencedaggerfs.com
Jia describes his roles on PyTorch 1.0 and ONNX. The ONNX specification independently documents the portable format.
- Going Deeper with Convolutionsarxiv.org
Lists Jia as a co-author and describes the 2014 ImageNet results.
- NVIDIA DGX Cloud Leptondeveloper.nvidia.com
Explains the platform; Jia’s personal site confirms his founding role and the acquisition.
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