Yi Wang
Senior Research Scientist at Canva
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYi Wang is a Senior Research Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of research experience at the intersection of AI and HCI, specializing in agentic systems for reasoning, planning, and creative applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University and has led AI-agent research and prototype development across Autodesk, Midjourney, and now Canva, applying large language models, reinforcement learning, and neural-symbolic methods to design and storytelling domains. His work spans from probabilistic commonsense reasoning and planning in uncertain environments to practical workflows that enable creative storytelling and architectural design via autonomous agents. Known for turning formal logic frameworks into usable agent planners, he balances deep theoretical background with user-facing research studies and product-oriented prototyping. Based in the Bay Area, he brings both academic rigor and industry pragmatism to building AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate with people in complex creative tasks.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sichuan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Arizona State University
Chinese, English, JapaneseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ywang485/pbcplus2pomdp
May 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ywang485/pbcplus2mdp
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 27 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 2 months
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