Yi Cui
Vice President Of Artificial Intelligence at CSC Generation
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolYi Cui is a Vice President of Artificial Intelligence with 13 years of experience building global-scale distributed systems and leveraging AI to help advertisers make data-driven decisions. He has driven high-impact, cross-functional initiatives at Google—leading asset migrations with multi-billion-dollar revenue implications and building ad systems that manage advertiser data, observability, and AI-driven creative generation. A founder of ONEKQ, Yi has published practical code-generation and text-to-SQL models that reached broad adoption on Hugging Face and created a WebApp1K leaderboard used by web developers to evaluate coding LLMs. His background spans research and product: a PhD in Computer Science, faculty experience at Vanderbilt, and early entrepreneurial work co-founding a streaming startup for Chinese content. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs hands-on engineering (from TLS-scale messaging infrastructure to ads APIs) with strategic leadership across product, data governance, and AI innovation. Colleagues know him for turning complex technical constraints into operationally reliable systems that directly improve business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Tsinghua University
ruby on rails, css, jquery, php, java, c++Github contributions (4)
yicui/webdevelopment
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 2 months
yicui/crowdlive
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
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