Yanshuai Cao
Senior Director, Research Distinguished Engineer at RBC Borealis
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYanshuai Cao is a Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer leading R&D at RBC Borealis with 12 years of experience turning ML and NLP research into profitable, production AI solutions across multiple banking verticals. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and has a track record of bootstrapping ML-driven products from prototype to revenue while also driving fundamental research that yielded patents and publications. Yanshuai blends hands-on technical depth in LLMs and computer vision with portfolio-level leadership, managing cross-functional teams to deliver transformative technologies. He has moved fluidly between academia and industry—teaching machine learning courses and publishing at top venues—while guiding product, engineering, and business stakeholders. Not obvious from titles alone: he has repeatedly built teams that shifted research outputs directly into profit generators within core banking lines. Based in Toronto, he focuses on pragmatic innovation that balances scientific advancement with measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
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28answers
4questions
Github Skills (35)
statistics9
python8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
data-science8
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
data-analysis7
optimization6
regression6
orm6
scikit-learn6
bulk-insert6
matrix6
linear-regression6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BorealisAI/lite_tracer
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
a light weight experiment reproducibility toolset
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 10 months
light-weightreproducibilitytoolsetlight
yanshuaicao/yanshuaicao.github.io
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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