Yanshuai Cao

Director of Engineering

Canada13 yrs 6 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in AI solutions and machine learning.
Proven track record in R&D leadership.
Strong background in developing profitable products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Research expert with a strong focus on AI and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningAi SolutionsAiResearchData AnalyticsClient Management

Other Skills

Product DevelopmentPatentsTechnical GuidanceComputer VisionImage ProcessingAlgorithmsData MiningBig DataProgrammingBayesian inferencenonparametric methodsStatisticsPythonC++C

About

Leading R&D teams for both direct profit optimization and direct science advancement. CS Ph.D. with research experience in ML, NLP, LLM.

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Rbc borealis

6 roles

Senior Director, Research | Distinguished Technologist

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Portfolio Head, accountable for R&D and delivery of AI solutions across multiple verticals.

Senior Director, Research

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Portfolio Head, accountable for R&D and delivery of AI solutions across multiple verticals.

Senior Research Team Lead

Jan 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Bootstrapped a portfolio of ML-driven products, from 0 to multiple profit generators, in a core banking line of business.

Research Team Lead

May 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Leading an integrated research team to conduct both fundamental research and product-driven applied research:
Manage a group of researchers and research engineers;
Responsible for delivering R&D work to products on multiple business lines;
Responsible for developing novel intellectual properties in AI in the form of patents and publications;
Jointly lead a cross-functional team consisting of research, engineering, product,
business units in delivering new transformative technologies to RBC.

Fundamental Research Team Lead

Aug 2017 – May 2018 · 9 mos

Lead a research team that performs fundamental research, in order to develop novel intellectual properties in AI in the form of patents and publications.

Researcher

Dec 2016 – Aug 2017 · 8 mos

Disney research

Consulting Research Scientist

Sep 2016 – Dec 2016 · 3 mos

University of toronto scarborough

Course Instructor (Introduction to Machine Learning)

Sep 2016 – Dec 2016 · 3 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

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Researcher

Mar 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Contacted research in computer vision and machine learning.
Published a paper in the top deep learning conference ICLR 2016 as co-first author.
Provided technical guidance for R&D and innovation projects.
Helped building the data analytics service offering at the company.
Contributed to the sales process of the data analytics service.
Led the technical effort in completing the first client data analytics project under short time constraint while exceeding client expectation.