Leadership team

Zhiru Shi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a research assistant professor at ShanghaiTech University, working on 3D vision, light-field imaging and video coding.

He founded YOKE Intelligence in 2018 and later served as Vice President of DGene, bringing 3D vision and digital twin systems into practical use. He is co-founder and CEO of TranscEngram, where he leads commercialization and fundraising.

Shenghua Gao is a tenured associate professor at HKU’s School of Computing and Data Science. His research covers 3D and 4D reconstruction, generative models and embodied AI. He earned his bachelor’s degree at USTC and PhD at Nanyang Technological University, and was previously a professor at ShanghaiTech University.

He received a Microsoft Research Fellowship and the ACM Shanghai Young Research Scientist Award, and served as publicity chair for CVPR 2024 and area chair for leading conferences. He is the corresponding author of CUPID, which jointly recovers object shape, texture and camera pose from a single image.

Yanchao Yang is an assistant professor in HKU’s School of Computing and Data Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He leads the InfoBodied AI Lab, studying 3D perception, action concept learning and robot manipulation with less reliance on human annotation.

He earned his PhD in computer science at UCLA with Stefano Soatto and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford with Leonidas Guibas. His honors include the RGC Early Career Award and Meta Research Award. He has served as an area chair for NeurIPS, ICLR and RSS.

Chaobing Song holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University. He conducted research at UC Berkeley with Yi Ma and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He works on large-scale optimization and machine learning and co-authored the MCR² paper.

At Huawei, he led projects in retrieval, attention operator fusion and reinforcement learning post-training. At TranscEngram, he oversees training systems, post-training, model updates and adaptation to domestically developed computing hardware.

Bei Yu holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. She served as deputy branch head at Standard Chartered and HSBC, with responsibilities across finance, legal and compliance, operations and organizational management.

She co-founded TranscEngram in 2023 and serves as CFO. Her experience includes financing structures, financial modeling, internal controls and operational management.