Dr. Shelby Heinecke leads an AI research team at Salesforce. Shelby’s team develops cutting-edge AI for product and research in emerging directions including autonomous agents, LLMs, and on-device AI. Some of her team's most notable agentic AI works include the open source multi-agent platform, AgentLite, and the "Tiny Giant", a competitive 1B model for function-calling.

Shelby earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in machine learning theory. She also holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Northwestern and a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT. Website: www.shelbyh.ai