Yi Shen completed his doctoral degree in computer science earlier this month, and now, he is in Mountain View, Calif., to begin work with Internet industry giant Google.
Shen, who spent summer 2012 as an intern in Mountain View working on Search by Image technology, applied for a full-time position at the end of his three-month internship. He soon received an offer letter that included the signature of Google CEO Larry Page.
“During my internship I had the opportunity to work directly with the Search by Image corps team,” said Shen. “I will continue to work with that group. As for the internship itself, it was wonderful. It is such a great working environment, there’s not a lot of stress, everyone was very kind, and I really enjoyed the food there.”
As part of the Search by Image team, Shen will help develop the algorithms that are the brains of the search engine. According to a Google blog, “The technology behind Search by Image analyzes your image to find its most distinctive points, lines and textures and creates a mathematical model. We match that model against billions of images in our index and page analysis helps us derive a best guess text description of your image.”
Simply put, Search by Image allows users to find out information about a specific image without having to type in keywords. It’s as simple as a drag and drop or an upload from a personal computer.