Founder · Executive · Researcher
Yuan Cao
Unreasonable LabsCo-founder and CEO
Cao helped give Gemini its ability to work across text, images, audio, and very long documents. He later co-founded Unreasonable Labs to build agents that form and test ideas over long tasks, aiming beyond fluent answers toward systems that can discover new knowledge.
Career & education
Current roleUnreasonable LabsJun 2025-presentCo-founder and CEO
Unreasonable LabsJun 2025-presentPreviously
Google DeepMindApr 2023-May 2025Senior Staff Research Scientist
GoogleNov 2017-Apr 2023Staff Research Scientist, Manager — Google Brain
BaiduJun 2017-Nov 2017Principal Architect
Google DeepMindApr 2023-May 2025GoogleNov 2017-Apr 2023BaiduJun 2017-Nov 2017
Johns Hopkins University
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityWork 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.
citations66,650As of Oct 23, '26
citations+10,700Since last snapshot, Jul 11, '26
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