Weiran Yao

Weiran Yao is an accomplished research scientist and co-founder, currently serving as the Research Scientist Manager at Salesforce AI Research, where leadership of a team focuses on developing the LLM reasoning and planning engine for Salesforce Agentforce. With experience as a Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist at Salesforce, Weiran has driven initiatives for Agentic AI systems and advanced data pipelines for code LLMs. Additionally, Weiran co-founded TraffiQure Technologies, leveraging AI and ML to improve transportation decision-making. Previous roles include a Data Scientist position at the City University of Hong Kong and a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, where research concentrated on deep representation learning. Weiran holds both a PhD and an MS in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University.