Yao Zhao

Machine Learning · Microsoft AI

I work on machine learning at Microsoft AI. Also had fun working previously at Pinterest and Amazon. I got my PhD in computer science from the University of Arizona, luckily advised by Dr. Kwang-Sung Jun.

My work spans core ML problems like multi-armed bandits, with applications in adaptive experimentation, LLMs, and causal inference. I publish at ICML ('23, '25) and NeurIPS ('24).