Shun Zheng
Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Haidian District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolShun Zheng is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia with 12 years of experience advancing machine learning for real-world, safety-critical domains. He currently focuses on improving reasoning in large language models using reinforcement learning, building on a track record of applied AI in healthcare, energy, and sustainability for tasks like clinical health prediction, battery degradation modeling, and probabilistic forecasting. Trained at Tsinghua University (Ph.D.), he blends foundations in knowledge extraction and large-scale distributed optimization with practical expertise in tabular, time-series, and spatiotemporal data. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who bridges rigorous theory and deployment impact—turning complex statistical methods into robust, production-ready solutions in operational settings.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (67)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
forecasts10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shun-zheng/Doc2EDAG
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 24 comments in 3 years 3 months
dolphin-zs/DIAG-NRE
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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