Yu Tao

2017-2019: Senior Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba. Focused on multilingual text understanding and semantic matching.
2019-2025: Data Science Manager at Agoda.com. Led the development of agentic systems, including RAG frameworks, context engineering, prompt optimization platforms, and multi-agent systems. Also directed content intelligence solutions for image and text understanding, encompassing hotel image tagging, quality assessment, ranking, customer review analysis, and property characterization.
2025-Present: Chief Scientist at Huawei Central Software Institute Singapore. Driving the development of Huawei’s agentic platform, openJiuwen. Leading the core technology R&D for the openJiuwen Agent Harness SDK and the self-evolving agent algorithm. Responsible for executing Huawei’s super agent initiatives, making significant contributions to technical planning, system design, and productization.