Yu He

Yu Yu currently serves as the Head of Machine Learning Engineering at Highspot, focusing on search and AI engineering since April 2025. Prior to this role, Yu held the position of Senior Director in Machine Learning Engineering at Salesforce, overseeing various AI solution foundations from December 2023 to April 2025, and at WarnerMedia, leading Machine Learning Engineering at HBO Max and personalization at Max from September 2021 to December 2023. Yu’s experience includes a Director role at Twitter, managing Revenue Product Foundations, and extensive tenures at Tencent and Baidu, where responsibilities encompassed algorithm management and search ads quality, respectively. Early professional endeavors involved significant contributions at Google, including the creation of the YouTube Watch Next system, and at BiggerBoat, developing an advanced entertainment-specific information retrieval system. Yu Yu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kent State University.