Yu Yao
Member Of Technical Staff at Mind Robotics
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Yao is a research-driven machine learning engineer with a PhD in Robotics from the University of Michigan and a decade of experience applying computer vision and deep learning to autonomous driving and intelligent transportation systems. He has translated academic advances in spatio-temporal event detection, trajectory prediction, and video anomaly detection into production-focused roles at Nuro, ByteDance, Meta, and now Mind Robotics, often bridging research and engineering to deploy large-scale multimodal models. Recently his work has centered on behavior ML foundation models and multimodal LLMs for agentic AI, including supervised fine-tuning with chain-of-thought reasoning and model-graded evaluation at billion-scale datasets. Yu combines deep theoretical grounding (publishing novel datasets and evaluation metrics) with hands-on systems experience—building automotive event-recording pipelines and image-text ranking models for e-commerce. Based in Mountain View, he brings both leadership as a technical lead and rapid prototyping instincts from industry internships at Toyota Research Institute and Honda Research Institute. An infrequent but impactful open-research contributor, he tends to surface practical metrics and benchmarks that others adopt when moving vision research toward real-world autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Michigan College of Engineering
English, Chinese
Github Skills (91)
python10
edgetpu10
deep-learning10
ml10
jetson-xavier10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorrt10
nvidia-jetson10
nvidia10
tensorflow10
deepstream10
jetson10
machine-learning10
image-recognition10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MoonBlvd/Detection-of-Traffic-Anomaly
Aug 2020 - May 2022
This is the repo for our Detection of Traffic Anomaly (DoTA) dataset.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 9 months
anomalydota-datasetanomaly-detectiondatasetmachine-learning
MoonBlvd/Sticky-HDP-HMM
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 1 push in 6 months
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