John Yang announced on LinkedIn that he has joined Adobe as Head of Research and AI Technology. He returns to the company where he worked as a research scientist earlier in his career.
Yang spent seven and a half years at ByteDance, most recently leading its multimodal foundation-model work. He said his teams built technologies behind TikTok and the CapCut family of products as well as the Seedream image-generation and Seedance video-generation model series.
At Adobe, Yang said he will focus on AI that acts as a creative partner, helping people turn ideas into visual work more quickly while opening up new forms of storytelling and creative workflows.