Michi Y.

Michi Y. is a skilled member of the technical staff at OpenAI since March 2025, previously serving as a research scientist at Meta from February 2024 to March 2025, focusing on large language models (LLMs), post-training, reasoning, and multimodality. Michi Y. completed a PhD in Machine Learning at Stanford University from September 2019 to February 2024, with research interests in LLMs, multimodality, retrieval, and reasoning, under the guidance of prominent committee members Percy Liang, Jure Leskovec, and Chris Manning. Prior experience includes a research role at Google DeepMind for a few months in 2023, focusing on reasoning LLMs, and a research intern position at Meta in 2022, working on multimodal LLMs. Michi Y. also contributed as a research assistant and teaching assistant at Yale University between 2016 and 2019, specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, and data science. Michi Y. holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Yale University, obtained in 2019.