Yingbo Zhou
Senior Research Director @Salesforce
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Research Director @Salesforce
Led SFR-Embedding series (text & code), driving three releases (v1, v2, and Code) from concept to open source, achieving #1 on MTEB and COIR leaderboards. Co-led Salesforce’s in-house text and code LLM initiatives, including the xGen series, which performs at or above open-source baselines, and the CodeGen2/2.5 models, which demonstrate competitive performance. Led research effort on reasoning and LLM based coding agents. Shaped research agendas for post-training, defined success metrics, and guided teams on data and training recipes. Led developer productivity tools from inception — both internal and external — by setting research roadmaps, aligning capabilities and collaborate to deliver products with product/engineering teams.
EDUCATION
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
M.Sc., Computer Science
University at Buffalo
PhD, Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT YINGBO ZHOU
AI research leader focused on turning generative modeling into practical tools for developers and enterprises. Lead LLM research, model optimization, and shipping developer-facing tools, with strong cross-functional collaboration across product and engineering. Believes AI holds great potential to benefit humanity and needs to be developed responsibly.
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