Tengyu Ma
Chief AI Scientist at MongoDB
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolTengyu Ma is a Stanford assistant professor and Chief AI Scientist at MongoDB with nine years of experience at the intersection of machine learning theory and large-scale AI systems. He studies deep learning, reinforcement learning, foundation models, robustness, and nonconvex/distributed optimization, and his lab has produced multiple researchers now at OpenAI, CMU, and top quant firms. Tengyu combines rigorous theoretical work from Princeton and Tsinghua with industry-facing roles—co-founding Voyage AI and serving as visiting faculty/researcher at Google and Facebook—bringing research into product impact. Based in Palo Alto, he is notable for mentoring a pipeline of talent into industry research teams while actively exploring how pretraining and optimization theory inform robust foundation models.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rice UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Princeton University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
optimizer9
python8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
data-science7
statistical-learning7
textbook7
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
theory6
neural-network5
large-language-models5
statistics5
bibtex4
latex4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tengyuma/resnet-in-tensorflow
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:29 pushes in 6 months
residual-networksdeep-learningcifar10residualtensorflow
fairinternal/SID
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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