Weiran Yao

AI research leader with deep expertise in large-scale model training, reasoning engines, and multi-agent systems. At Salesforce AI Research, Weiran led the post-training team behind the xLAM large action models, along with the Agentforce planning engine and the CodeGenie agent, and drove the pre-training of Salesforce's CoDA code diffusion model. He recently spearheaded open-source releases including Enterprise Deep Research, Webscale-RL, and CoDA-1.7B, advancing applied AI from research into production at enterprise scale. A CMU Ph.D. in Machine Learning, he has published 70+ papers, holds 13 U.S. patents, and serves on NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and ACL committees.