Shizhe Diao
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShizhe Diao is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA with a decade of experience advancing scalable post-training and reinforcement learning techniques for large foundation models. His work emphasizes data-centric design to build more capable, general-purpose AI agents, blending rigorous research with practical systemization. He completed a Ph.D. under Professor Tong Zhang and broadened his expertise as a visiting scholar at UIUC with Professor Heng Ji, reflecting strong academic and industry collaboration. Prior roles include research staff positions at HKUST and an internship at ByteDance AI Lab, giving him hands-on exposure to both foundational research and applied ML systems. Based in Milpitas, CA, he combines deep theoretical grounding with a track record of shipping research that scales to real-world large-model deployments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Scholar, Large Language Models, Visiting Scholar, Large Language Models at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (179)
similarity-search10
transformers10
function-call10
language-model10
sentence10
python10
attention-mechanism10
deep-learning10
foundation-models10
gemma10
compression10
blockly10
clustering10
glm10
text-to-image10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
shizhediao/shizhediao
Oct 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
shizhediao/awesome-domain-adaptation-NLP
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
domain adaptation in NLP
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year
natural-language-processing
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