Haichao Yu is an experienced machine learning engineer with a strong academic background in computer vision and machine learning. Currently serving as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Google since May 2025, Haichao previously held a similar position at Adobe, focusing on the Firefly GenAI data, modeling, and training framework from October 2023 to May 2025. Prior experience includes a role as a Research Engineer at TikTok, where work involved multi-modality modeling and web-scale data curation for vision-language learning. Haichao's earlier career includes positions at Google as a Research Intern and various research internships at ByteDance, Wormpex AI Research, and Adobe. Academic credentials include a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China.
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