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Daniel Yao

AI/ML Leader | Meta Ads | Ex-Amazon, Yelp, Citadel

Palo Alto, California, United States

Career path.

  1. Meta

    Senior Manager, AI Research

    Jan 2026 - Present
  2. Amazon

    Head of Bidding

    Apr 2024 - Dec 2025
  3. Amazon

    Senior Applied Science Manager

    Oct 2022 - Apr 2024
  4. Yelp

    Senior Director of Engineering, Applied Machine Learning

    Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
  5. Yelp

    Engineering Manager, Revenue Optimization

    May 2016 - Sep 2018
  6. Yelp

    Tech Lead, Ad Targeting

    Feb 2014 - Apr 2016
  7. XR Trading

    High Frequency Trading Developer

    Nov 2011 - Jan 2014
  8. Citadel Investment Group

    Quantitative Developer

    Feb 2009 - Oct 2011
  9. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Teaching Assistant, ECE498JM (Global Positioning Systems)

    Aug 2008 - Dec 2008
  10. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Research Assistant, Coordinated Science Lab

    Aug 2007 - Dec 2008