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Bowen Yang

Observer · DISC type ci
Member of Technical Staff at Cohere
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bowen Yang is a Member of Technical Staff on Coheres Foundation team, focusing on pushing the capabilities of large language models. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Waterloo, his recent work includes co-authoring papers on hybrid attention strategies and KV cache efficiency, which were accepted at NeurIPS 2024 and 2025.

There is no publicly available information regarding Bowens personal life or hobbies outside of his professional work in AI research and development. His public profile and publications are centered on his technical contributions to the field of large language models.

He was a featured speaker at NVIDIA GTC, where he co-presented a talk on the challenges and innovations in scaling transformer models for long-context modeling.

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Member of Technical Staff
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Personality Overview

How Bowen shows up

Example Seeker
Value Driven
Curious

They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince.

Priorities

Topics Bowen cares about

Long-Context LLMs
He co-authored the NeurIPS 2025 paper "Rope to Nope and Back Again" and spoke at NVIDIA GTC on scaling transformers to handle increasingly long contexts.
LLM Efficiency
Co-authored the NeurIPS 2024 paper "SnapKV, " which introduces a method to reduce KV cache size, significantly improving memory and time efficiency for LLMs.
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Career

Work history

10-2023
Member of Technical Staff
Cohere
1-2022 - 10-2023
Applied Scientist | Member of Technical Staff
Cerebras Systems
5-2021 - 9-2021
MLE Intern
Wish
9-2019 - 1-2020
Recommendation System Intern
Wish
9-2018 - 12-2018
Mobile Engineer Intern
Wish
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Media appearances

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Education
2020 - 2021
Master's degree
Columbia University
2016 - 2020
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc
University of Waterloo
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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