Yujia Bao
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYujia Bao is a PhD-trained AI researcher and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade, enterprise AI systems that bridge cutting-edge research and real-world impact. At Accenture she founded and scaled AI Refinery into a company-wide agent platform used by 10k+ developers and driving hundreds of millions in sales, personally authoring large amounts of production code and defining engineering standards for multi-team delivery. Her research background from MIT spans transfer learning, interpretability, and fairness, and she has published novel work on robust vision models for multi-channel biological imaging. Comfortable from low-level distributed training to high-level agent orchestration, she combines deep technical rigor with product instincts—she even prototyped an enterprise agent PoC in two weeks that catalyzed global adoption. Based in Cambridge, MA, she balances serious ML engineering with lighter pursuits (training neural networks and dogs) and maintains an active scholarly presence.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Arts - MA Mathematics, Master of Arts - MA Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (41)
signature-verification9
pii9
classification9
recurrent-neural-networks9
nlp8
arxiv8
python8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
ipados8
ipad8
gru7
robotics7
alarm7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
YujiaBao/Distributional-Signatures
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
Few-shot Text Classification with Distributional Signatures
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
nlpsignaturesmachine-learningtext-classificationfew-shot
YujiaBao/yujiabao.github.io
Jun 2021 - Dec 2023
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
responsive-jekyll-themeacademicscleanjekylljekyll-theme
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