Shen Zheng
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolShen Zheng is an LLM research scientist with nine years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI after leading coding-LLM and agent-focused work on ByteDance’s Seed-LLM team. His background blends practical production research—post-training (SFT, RL) and synthetic code/agent data for pretraining—with academic investigations into LLM factuality and ethics from UIUC. Shen has a strong engineering foundation (BS from Zhejiang University, MS from UIUC) and a published track record including NAACL 2024 work on reliable LLM evaluation. Based in San Jose, he brings a rare mix of hands-on model development, dataset synthesis, and principled evaluation, often bridging research rigor with product-facing model capabilities.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 3.98/4.00, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 3.98/4.00 at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (39)
kotlin10
odk10
awestruct10
data-collection10
java10
automation10
android-app10
mhealth10
android10
static-site10
jenkins10
points10
xforms10
documentation10
jenkins-api-plugin9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ShenJack/working-hours-plugin
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Jenkins plugin to prevent a build step from running outside working hours
Contributions:94 pushes, 29 branches in 5 months
jenkinsgatlingjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-pluginworking-hours
ShenJack/easy_unipus_back
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:71 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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