Hao Zhu
Engineering Manager at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Zhu is an engineering manager based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building ML infrastructure, recommendation systems, search and ranking, and large-scale distributed data platforms. Currently leading ML and core modeling efforts at Meta, he blends research rigor from a Stanford postdoc background with hands-on production experience in ads, DSP/DMP and game industry AI at EA. His technical depth spans core modeling, big data pipelines, and ML infra—skills honed across academia and high-throughput production systems. Hao’s career shows a pattern of moving research ideas into robust, scalable services, including work on resource allocation and optimization from his early research roles. He mentors teams to deliver measurable improvements in recommendation quality and system reliability while keeping sight of algorithmic foundations. Colleagues rely on him for bridging theory and production engineering in complex, latency-sensitive environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of VirginiaMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (86)
relation10
representation-learning10
in-progress10
computer-vision10
artificial-intelligence10
reinforcement-learning-environments10
physics-engine10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
interaction10
datasets9
embedding9
language-processing9
extraction9
relation-extraction9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sotopia-lab/sotopia
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Sotopia: an Open-ended Social Learning Environment (ICLR 2024 spotlight)
Contributions:13 releases, 197 reviews, 128 PRs in 1 year 5 months
large-language-modelsllm-agentmachine-learningreinforcement-learning-environments
ProKil/anlp-grading-tools
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 months
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