Changran Hu
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolChangran Hu is a machine learning and systems engineer with nine years of experience building and deploying large language models and agentic AI. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI, he focuses on improving Grok’s coding and reasoning capabilities, building on prior leadership of post-training and agentic model delivery at SambaNova. He co-founded DeepMusic, scaling it to 30 employees and securing $3M in funding and high-profile music partnerships, demonstrating an uncommon blend of research, productization, and go-to-market chops. His hands-on expertise spans post-training for models from 7B to 176B, reproducible data/evaluation pipelines, and HW–SW co-design to boost training and inference efficiency. Comfortable translating research into production, he pairs a Tsinghua electrical engineering degree with a master’s from UC Berkeley in information management and systems. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines startup founder grit with enterprise-grade ML engineering for long-context, multilingual, and agentic AI systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Management and Systems, Master's degree Information Management and Systems at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (14)
midi4
code-generation3
python3
beam-search3
secured3
seq2seq3
signed3
pytorch2
natural-language-processing2
sql2
deep-learning2
tensorflow1
ethereum1
neural-network1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KevinHuuu/lang2code
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
KevinHuuu/terminal-bench
Aug 2025 - Sep 2025
A benchmark for LLMs on complicated tasks in the terminal
Contributions:53 pushes, 4 branches in 19 days
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