Summer Yue
About Summer Yue
Summer Yue serves as the Chief of Staff for AI and Director of Safety and Standards at Scale AI, where she manages multiple GenAI ML teams. She has a background in research and engineering from Google and holds degrees in Economics and Computer Science from The Wharton School.
Current Role at Scale AI
Summer Yue serves as Chief of Staff, AI and Director of Safety and Standards at Scale AI since 2023. In this role, she manages several GenAI machine learning teams that focus on auto evaluations, synthetic data, and post-training data research. Additionally, she holds the position of Research Director at Scale's Safety and Alignment Lab (SEAL), which is dedicated to safety evaluations and analysis. Her work emphasizes aligning AI systems with human values and developing techniques to mitigate potentially dangerous behaviors.
Previous Experience at Google
Prior to her current position, Summer Yue worked at Google in various capacities. She served as a Senior Research Engineer in Google Brain from 2021 to 2023, where she contributed to advanced AI research. Before that, she was a Software Engineer focused on YouTube Trust & Safety from 2018 to 2020. Additionally, she held roles as a Staff Research Engineer in Google DeepMind and as a Research Software Engineer in Google Brain, accumulating extensive experience in AI and machine learning.
Educational Background
Summer Yue completed her education at The Wharton School, earning a Bachelor of Science in Economics from 2014 to 2017. Concurrently, she participated in the Jerome Fisher M&T Program, where she achieved a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science during the same period. This dual focus on economics and computer science provided her with a strong foundation for her career in AI and technology.
Internship Experience
Summer Yue gained valuable experience through several internships early in her career. In 2014, she interned as a Software Engineering Intern at China Petroleum for two months. She also completed internships at Microsoft as a Backend Engineer for Microsoft Office in 2016 and at Square in Compliance Engineering on Finance and Analytics in 2017. These roles contributed to her technical skills and understanding of software engineering in various sectors.
Passion for AI Safety and Alignment
Summer Yue is passionate about the intersection of artificial intelligence and human values. She focuses on developing techniques that prevent potentially dangerous behaviors in AI systems. Her commitment to exploring ideas that can significantly improve the world drives her work in safety evaluations and alignment, particularly in her current role at Scale AI.