Weiran Yao
Chief AI Officer at actAVA.ai
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeiran Yao is a PhD-trained AI leader and entrepreneur who builds agentic AI systems for healthcare, positioning his work as a "Cursor for Healthcare" with continuous compliance. As Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at actAVA.ai, he drives product-grade models and Agent OS design informed by prior research leadership at Salesforce AI Research where he led data pipelines, benchmarks, and post-training for large action models and CodeGenie. He has a strong academic pedigree from CMU (70+ papers, 14 US patents) and a track record of turning research into startups, including a CMU spinoff in transportation analytics. Known for blending causal representation learning and multi-agent planning, he often tackles non-obvious problems like identifiable latent causal dynamics in nonstationary time series to improve real-world decision systems. Based in Palo Alto, he combines deep technical authorship with hands-on product delivery across healthcare and life sciences.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (33)
representation-learning10
causal-discovery9
fastapi7
large-language-models7
tailwindcss7
natural-language-processing7
react7
lora7
quantization7
nlp7
salesforce6
agent6
ai6
fine-tuning6
transformers6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Raven603/cranberry_data
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1598 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
weirayao/weirayao
Sep 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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