Summary
Hiroaki Hayashi is a Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce AI Research with 13 years of experience focused on large language models for code and deep learning for NLP. He progressed from a research intern to senior scientist, contributing to CodeGen, CodeGen2, CodeGen2.5 and XGen model efforts that bridge cutting-edge research and production-grade code generation. A PhD-trained NLP researcher from Carnegie Mellon, he combines rigorous academic foundations with hands-on model development and deployment in industry. Known for navigating both research and engineering domains, he brings a pragmatic approach to scaling LLMs for developer-facing applications.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University