Summary
Yan Xiao is an AI engineer with 11 years of experience building agentic systems and large-scale ML features across industry and research. He spent seven years at Microsoft driving applied science for products like Excel Copilot, Bing Deep Search and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and has recent hands-on focus on long-term memory for autonomous agents at EverMind. His background spans academic research at the Institute of Computing Technology and practical system work from Alibaba Cloud’s distributed scheduler to recommendation algorithms at Hulu. Yan moves fluidly between research and product delivery, translating novel LLM/agent ideas into production-relevant components. He has a track record of shipping at scale and an uncommon blend of deep systems experience and agent-centric ML research. Based in Haidian, Beijing, he combines institutional research rigor with fast-paced startup execution.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Key Lab of Network Data Science and Technology, Master, Key Lab of Network Data Science and Technology at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English