Yuanshun (Kevin) Yao Email: kevinyaowork [at] gmail.com [Resume] [Google Scholar] [LinkedIn]

I'm an AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs, working on AI agents and safety.

I was a researcher at ByteDance Research, working on LLM alignment and trustworthy AI. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chicago, advised by Prof. Ben Zhao and Prof. Heather Zheng, working on AI safety. Before that, I got three B.S. degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. I interned at Google twice and received the Siebel Scholarship.

Writing

I sometimes write for myself to help me figure things out and have fun. Why? As AI is getting better and better at details, what's left for us are higher-level, harder-to-verify questions. Paradoxically, although writing is one of the skills most easily replaced by AI, it's still the best tool to think. So those who can still write have a wider moat. And why let AI have all the fun?

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