Experience
Contact Information
| Name | Wenyi Yao |
| Professional Title | Machine Learning Associate |
| wenyi.yao@vectorinstitute.ai |
Professional Summary
Machine Learning Associate at the Vector Institute with experience in agentic AI systems, speech AI, multimodal learning, and applied machine learning for healthcare and accessibility applications.
Experience
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2026 - present Toronto, ON, Canada
Machine Learning Associate
Vector Institute
Working on applied agentic AI systems for healthcare operations and scheduling workflows.
- Built an agentic scheduling workflow with LangGraph and Azure OpenAI
- Translated free-text physician requests into validated scheduling constraints
- Added guardrails, validation, and clarification fallback logic
- Developed evaluation workflows for agent quality and tool use
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2025 - 2025 London, ON, Canada
Technical / Research Support I
Western University
Conducted research and development on speech AI for preschool conversational ASR under the supervision of Dr. Nikan and Dr. Daub.
- Built a zero-shot LLM second-pass correction pipeline for child ASR
- Developed FAISS-based retrieval over developmental phonology evidence
- Studied Whisper transcription errors and confidence-guided correction
- Contributed to research communication and paper preparation
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2025 - 2025 Remote
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Vosyn Inc.
Worked on multilingual speech transcription and speaker diarization pipelines.
- Developed an end-to-end audio pipeline on GCP
- Dockerized transcription and diarization microservices
- Deployed GPU services on Vertex AI Endpoints
- Standardized deployment workflows and codebase structure
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2024 - 2025 London, ON, Canada
Graduate Researcher
Western University
Conducted research on multimodal learning and computer vision for autonomous vehicle perception under the supervision of Dr. Nikan.
- Built CNN models for emergency vehicle detection
- Explored multimodal learning and contributed to an AV-LLM survey
- Trained and evaluated models on GPU clusters with Slurm
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2023 - 2024 Toronto, ON, Canada
Volunteer Research Assistant
Mount Sinai Hospital
Supported biomedical literature analysis for genetic variant research under the supervision of Dr. Lerner-Ellis.
- Extracted genetic variant evidence from biomedical literature
- Collected phenotype, allele frequency, and assay information
- Used AI-based genomic search tools to improve retrieval efficiency
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2021 - 2021 Hefei, China
Project Management Intern
Tencent
Supported cross-functional project coordination and communication for large-scale event delivery.
- Supported schedule tracking, reporting, and document coordination
- Worked with cross-functional teams on logistics and content planning
- Helped communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
Education
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2023 - 2025 London, ON, Canada
Master of Engineering
Western University
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
- Vector Institute Collaborative Specialization in Artificial Intelligence
- Graduate Diploma in Engineering Leadership and Innovation
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2019 - 2023 Halifax, NS, Canada
Bachelor of Science
Dalhousie University
Computer Science
- Minor in Mathematics
- Certified in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
Skills
Programming: Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, MATLAB, R, HTML/CSS, Bash
Machine Learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy
Information Retrieval: Embeddings, FAISS, Vector Search, RAG
Agentic AI: LangGraph, LangChain, Tool Calling, Prompt Design, AgentEvals, OpenEvals
Cloud & MLOps: Docker, Azure OpenAI, Azure VM, GCP, Vertex AI, Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, CI/CD, Slurm, Linux, Git/GitHub