Qilian (Vision) Yu

Career

Electronic Arts

Technical Director II · 2023–Present

Senior AI Scientist · 2021–2023

AI Scientist · 2019–2021

Focus Areas

AI/ML platforms · Recommendation and personalization · Matchmaking · Real-time intelligence · Applied AI

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering — University of California, Davis, 2018

BE, Electrical Engineering — Zhejiang University, 2014

Selected Recognition

2026 ECE Rising Star Award — University of California, Davis

Department Start-Up Grant — 2017

NSF Travel Grant — 2016

Professional Biography

Qilian (Vision) Yu is a Technical Director II at Electronic Arts and an AI/ML leader with experience spanning research, production machine learning, and platform development. His work focuses on scalable AI systems for recommendation, personalization, matchmaking, real-time intelligence, and applied AI. Since joining EA in 2019, he has helped advance production-ready machine-learning capabilities that support intelligent player experiences at scale.

He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 2018 and a BE in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2014. His research background includes recommender systems, submodular optimization, streaming algorithms, and large-scale network analysis. In 2026, UC Davis Electrical and Computer Engineering recognized him with the ECE Rising Star Award for leadership and impact in intelligent systems.

Qilian (Vision) Yu, PhD

Technical Director II · AI/ML Platforms & Intelligent Systems

Electronic Arts

Email: qyu@ea.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qilianyu