Tao Yu is a machine learning and NLP-focused founder and research scientist with 8 years of experience building production-grade generative AI and multimodal platforms. He has led LLM training, scalable alignment and RLHF efforts as co-founder of 01.AI and now co-founds a stealth AI startup while advising through GGV Fellows. Prior to founding ventures, he architected Meituan’s LLM and multimodal platform from 0 to 1 and drove deep learning projects at Google on Assistant/Bard and smart home products. Tao combines rigorous academic grounding from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford programs with hands-on startup execution and a knack for shipping high-impact research into product. An uncommon thread in his career is repeatedly bridging large-scale research models with practical alignment and deployment pipelines. Based in California, he focuses on applying state-of-the-art ML to products that serve humanity.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate , Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
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