Haozhu Wang
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHaozhu Wang is an AI researcher and Member of Technical Staff based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience advancing LLMs, reasoning, alignment, and reinforcement learning. He has driven foundation-model development and post-training techniques across AWS Bedrock, Meta’s GenAI and Superintelligence Labs, and now pushes reasoning frontiers at xAI. His work spans LLM distillation, preference alignment, inference-time scaling, automatic prompt optimization, and model routing—practical research that has been deployed into large-scale GenAI services. A PhD-trained engineer from the University of Michigan, he combines rigorous academic publication and mentorship experience with hands-on product-facing ML systems. Notably, he contributed to Amazon’s Titan models and has published and patented RL and design automation research prior to focusing full-time on large-model reasoning. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who bridges deep theory and production-ready alignment engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michiganvisiting undergraduate student Electrical and Electronics Engineering, visiting undergraduate student Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at Tianjin UniversityBachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at Nankai University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
gaussian10
optimization9
gaussian-processes9
actor-critic8
simulations8
cox-regression8
python8
experimental-design8
mujoco8
simulation8
sac7
hyperparameter-tuning7
q-learning7
black-formatter7
physics7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hammer-wang/personal-website
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:136 pushes in 4 years 9 months
hammer-wang/RL_literature
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:58 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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