Huajian XinResearch Engineer · ByteDanceResearcher↗YW
Researcher · Executive
Yonghui Wu
ByteDanceHead of Research (ByteDance Seed)
Wu has led some of Google's largest systems—Google's Neural Machine Translation, PaLM, and Gemini—and now works on foundation models at ByteDance's Seed lab.
Career & education
Current roleByteDance2025-presentHead of Research (ByteDance Seed)
ByteDance2025-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2023-2025VP of Research, Google Fellow
Google Brain2014-2023Senior Staff Software Engineer -> Distinguished Engineer
Google DeepMind2023-2025Google Brain2014-2023Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations82,471As of Jun 15, '26
citations+18,744Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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