Pei Zhou
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPei Zhou is a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft Office of Applied Research with nine years of experience bridging NLP research and deployed generative AI products, currently focusing on learning from interaction, agent planning, and personalized intelligence for Copilot. She holds a PhD from USC (USC-NLP) and has a strong track record of internships and collaborations across industry leaders including Google DeepMind, Google Bard, AI2, and Amazon Alexa, working on theory of mind, goal-driven communicative agents, and commonsense dialogue. Her work sits at the intersection of communicative agents, common-ground reasoning for LLMs, and human-AI interaction, informed by a background in mathematics and computational linguistics. Pei blends cognitive-science-informed research with applied product impact, and has contributed to projects ranging from grounded environment agents to SIGDIAL-accepted dialogue datasets. Based in Bellevue, WA, she brings a research-to-production mindset that anticipates the future of work through personalized, ethically minded AI.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
portal7
creative-commons6
natural-language-processing5
adversarial-attacks5
nlp5
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence4
topic-modeling4
probing4
lda4
data-augmentation4
data-science3
fairness-ml3
ai3
ml2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shaoxia57/Bias_in_Gendered_Languages
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes in 7 months
shaoxia57/RICA
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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