Yu Yao is a seasoned professional in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, currently serving as a Senior Research Engineer at Meta since December 2024, where responsibilities include building multimodal AI agents for business users and advertisers. Prior experience includes a role as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance, focusing on developing image-text models for e-commerce ranking on billion-scale data, and a Technical Lead, Senior Research Scientist position at Nuro, where work involved large language models and multi-modality. Earlier in the career, Yu Yao held roles as a Research Scientist at Nuro, contributing to temporal action detection and trajectory prediction, and as a Graduate Student Research Assistant at the University of Michigan, developing innovative methods for driving video anomaly detection. Educational qualifications include a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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