Yongqing is currently a research scientist at Google Zurich. Previously, he held a post-doctoral position with Luc Van Gool in the Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich. He completed his PhD summa cum laude at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics under the supervision of Bernt Schiele and Zeynep Akata. His research has been focused on vision-language model pretraining and its applications in vision tasks.