VASC Seminar - Dr. Rong Yan

— 3:00pm

Location:
In Person - Newell-Simon 4305

Speaker:
RONG YAN, Chief Technology Officer, HeyGen
https://www.heygen.com/ai-research

Traditional video production is slow, expensive, and requires specialized skills. Founded by CMU alumni, HeyGen is an AI-native video platform designed to revolutionize the video creation process by making visual storytelling accessible to all. We've successfully grown to more than 20M users, and tens of millions revenue in less than one year, with recognition as the #1 Fastest Growing Software Product by G2 in 2025.

In this talk, I will talk about how HeyGen leverages cutting-edge AI to enable users to create, localize, personalize, and interact with videos with our state-of-the-art human-centric video engine. In particular, I will cover our key user cases including avatar videos, video translation, interactive avatar and a number of AI innovations for video generation. I will share more on our in-house research areas around video generation as well as real-world challenges in building AI applications.  

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Dr. Rong Yan is currently the CTO for HeyGen which is an innovative AI-driven video platform that allows users to create videos with AI-generated avatars and voices. Our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to everyone. Before joining HeyGen, Rong was a VP of Engineering in Hubspot Inc. responsible for their Data products including data platform, automation, data integration and reporting. Before Hubspot, he was the Senior Director of Product Engineering in Snapchat, Director of Data in Square, and Eng Manager of Ads Ranking in Facebook. Dr. Yan received his M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2006) degree from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. He has received 2 Best Paper runner-Up awards, published more than 60 papers, and co-chaired more than 10 conferences / workshops in the related domains.

Event Website:
https://www.ri.cmu.edu/event/the-new-era-of-video-generation/

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