Michael Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at Pear VC
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Zhang is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with a decade of engineering experience building and researching LLM-driven systems and agent architectures. He blends rigorous CS fundamentals from Stanford (4.03/4.00 undergrad, MS-level work) with hands-on product delivery—driving NIH data integration at Palantir, launching internal LLM tooling at InstaDeep, and shipping an AI agent CRM that won a Pear Pitch prize. Comfortable switching between research and production, he has published technical work in randomized social choice and led teams that measurably improved model performance and platform adoption. Active in the Stanford AI community and fellowships at 8VC and Pear, he mentors peers and scopes high-leverage AI products across venture and campus ecosystems. Notably, he pairs curiosity about AGI with practical impact: accelerating research workflows (40%) and reducing LLM error rates in clinical pipelines. Based in California, he combines a researcher’s attention to prompting and theory with a builder’s track record of deploying AI at scale.
10 years of coding experience
High School Diploma (4.02/4.00), High School Diploma (4.02/4.00) at The Lawrenceville SchoolMaster of Science - MS (4.30/4.00), Management Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS (4.30/4.00), Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Italian
Github Skills (27)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
orange6
census6
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
poisson5
simulation5
geostatistics4
binding4
surface4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mmichaelzhang/LMNI
May 2021 - Dec 2024
Repository for paper "Geodemographic Network Immunization for Epidemic Control"
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
orangecensusepidemic
mmichaelzhang/mmichaelzhang.github.io
Oct 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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