Ruida Zhou
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRuida Zhou is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI with seven years of experience designing and optimizing post-training recipes, algorithms, and pipelines for large language models. With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M and a postdoc at UCLA, she combines rigorous information-theoretic foundations and optimization to build ML and RL algorithms with provable guarantees. Her work on model compression and learning has earned multiple best-paper awards at NeurIPS and ISIT and an IEEE student paper prize, reflecting a strong track record of high-impact research-to-product translation. At Amazon she has driven large-scale RL solutions for Nova LLMs and led customer-budget-control features, demonstrating an ability to bridge production constraints and advanced modeling. Based in Sunnyvale, she’s also a Vanderbilt & Brown alum in spirit from her GitHub bio, a coffee-loving football and esports fan, and a proud Taylor Swiftie—bringing both technical rigor and human curiosity to her work.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Texas A&M University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
1reputation
678reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
backtesting10
rsa10
trading-bot10
datasets10
cryptocurrency10
cpp10
intel10
stockfish10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
vulnerabilities10
nlp10
multiclass-classification10
data-science10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lewis-810/lewis-810.github.io
Jul 2019 - Oct 2024
Website for the private organization.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
ruidazeng/vr-navigation
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Cluster analysis on subject data in immersive virtual environments.
Contributions:16 commits, 20 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
subjectvirtual-environmentsclusterenvironmentscluster-analysis
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