Liutong Zhou
Staff Research Scientist, AI Foundations
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLiutong Zhou is a machine learning engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in foundation model architectures, large-scale distributed training, training recipes, and agent RL. Currently a Member of Technical Staff on Cohere’s Foundation Models team after building LLM training frameworks, personalized recommendation systems, and agent prototypes at Apple, she has deep hands-on experience from pretraining to production. Her background spans applied research and engineering roles at AWS, WorkFusion, and academic projects at Columbia, demonstrating strength in scaling models and reducing data needs via weak supervision. Based in New York, she combines rigorous academic training from Columbia and Tsinghua with practical wins like improving OCR and sequence-model recommendations for native services—an ability to bridge research innovations into customer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at Columbia UniversityBachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (126)
transformers10
python10
sagemaker10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gemma10
glm10
statistics10
multimodal10
gradient-boosting10
ml10
audio10
neural-network10
transformer10
gpt10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LiutongZhou/Replication-for-A-Neural-Algorithm-of-Artistic-Style
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 4 pushes in 4 months
LiutongZhou/NYC-Taxi-Trip-Carpooling-Assistant
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 62 commits, 54 pushes in 2 months
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