Yang Gao
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYang Gao is an NLP researcher and software engineer with eight years of experience bridging academic rigor and production ML, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI after roles at Google DeepMind and Google. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College London and has a strong track record in reinforcement learning for NLP, summarization, argumentation mining, and evaluation of NLP systems. His career moves between top research labs and industry teams—from postdoctoral work at TU Darmstadt’s UKP Lab to lecturing at Royal Holloway—reflect a talent for turning theoretical ideas into deployable models. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable designing RL-based training objectives and shipping scalable research code, with a consistent focus on robust evaluation. Based in London, he brings an international academic foundation from China and Germany to cutting-edge AI product development.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
genetic-algorithm10
acl10
model-compression9
yelp9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
medicine9
nlp8
korean-nlp8
reinforcement-learning8
natural-language-processing8
summarization8
evaluation8
bert7
inference6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UKPLab/ijcai2019-relis
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
yg211/bert_nli
Apr 2020 - May 2021
A Natural Language Inference (NLI) model based on Transformers (BERT and ALBERT)
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
nlpmodel-basedtransformersnlibert
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