Shizhe 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-Champaign
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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