Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
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Qi Zhu is a Senior Applied Scientist specializing in structured knowledge integration for large language models, with 11 years of experience spanning industry and academia. At AWS he has driven work on GraphStorm and GraphRAG for RAG and agent applications, translating graph and retrieval research into production AI features. A PhD-trained NLP and recommender-systems researcher from UIUC with internships at Google and Meta, he blends rigorous research (e.g., shift-robust GNNs and semi-supervised graph learning) with product-focused applied science. Based in San Jose, he’s known for connecting graph/knowledge representations to practical LLM workflows and for bringing research prototypes to scalable AWS services. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain fluency—from recommender pooling strategies to pose estimation tooling—enabling creative, interdisciplinary solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Degree Computer Science, Ph.D. Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's degree Zhejiang University, Bachelor's degree Zhejiang University at Zhejiang University
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Qi Zhu - Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)