Dr. Allen Y. Yang is a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of EECS at UC Berkeley.
He also serves as the CTO of Atheer Inc., a Mountain View-based startup. His primary research 
areas include high-dimensional pattern recognition, computer vision, signal processing, and
applications in motion segmentation, image segmentation, face recognition, and sensor networks. 
He has published three books/chapters, 11 journal papers and more than 30 conference papers.
He is also an inventor of three US patents. 

Allen received his BEng degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology 
of China (USTC) in 2001. From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), he received 
two MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and a
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2006. Among the awards he received are a Best 
Bachelor's Thesis Award from USTC in 2001, a Henry Ford II Scholar Award from UIUC in 2003,
a Best Paper Award from the International Society of Information Fusion and a Best Student Paper
Award from Asian Conference on Computer Vision in 2009. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.