Rumor: Zeng Yan, head of Seedance 2.0 pre-training, was promoted to ByteDance 4-2, achieving consecutive promotions within a year.

According to CoinWorld, based on monitoring by 1M AI News, “Shen Ma’s Circle of Friends” reported that ByteDance Seed researcher and head of video generation model Seedance 2.0 pretraining, Zeng Yan, has recently been promoted to the new level 4-2 (corresponding to ByteDance’s new job grade system L7). She achieved a double jump within a year from level 3-2. Zeng Yan was born in 1997, completed her undergraduate studies at Xi’an Jiaotong University, and later earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Montreal in Canada. In 2021, she joined ByteDance AILab as a campus recruit, focusing on video generation and multimodal pretraining research. In 2023, she joined the newly established large model research department Seed with her team. In 2024, she published the video generation model PixelDance (Make Pixels Dance, the predecessor of the Seedance series) as the first author at CVPR. The same year, she was promoted from algorithm engineer to algorithm researcher. She is currently part of the Seed multimodal interaction and world model team, led by Wu Yonghui.